title: Polymeric (O-ethyl dithiocarbonato)silver(I).
abstract: The title compound, [Ag(C(3)H(5)OS(2))](n), is polymeric in the solid state and adopts a layered structure in which each Ag atom is five-coordinated in a distorted trigonal-bipyramidal geometry defined by four S atoms belonging to four different xanthate groups and by a neigbouring Ag atom [Ag.Ag = 3.0540 (8) A]. Each S atom is three-coordinated to one C and two Ag atoms. The structure can be envisaged as being formed by Ag(2)(S(2)COEt)(2) units in which every S atom is bonded to another Ag atom from a different unit and the Ag atoms are also bonded to two different S atoms of two other units. The result is a two-dimensional network of condensed metallacycles of six or eight atoms.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Química Inorgánica, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Aragón, Universidad de Zaragoza-CSIC, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain. irene.ara@posta.unizar.es
authors.forename: Irene
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Ara
authors.forename: Fatima
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: El Bahij
authors.forename: Mohamed
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lachkar