%0 Journal Article %@ 1477-9226 %A Canty, AJ %A Hayhurst, G %A Chaichit, N %A Gatehouse, BM %D 1980 %F epprod:2937 %J Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications %P 316-318 %T High Co-ordination Numbers for Methylmercury(II); X-Ray and 1H N.M.R. Studies of [MeHgL]NO3 (L = 4,4’,4”-Triethyl-2,2’:6’,2”-terpyridyl and Di-2-pyridylmethane) %U http://eprints.utas.edu.au/2937/ %V 7 %X Methylmercury(II) forms complexes [MeHgL]NO3 (L = 2,2’: 6’,2”-terpyridyls and di-2-pyridylmethane) where the ligands L are bidentate in methanol, but tridentate and bidentate, respectively, in the solid state with co-ordination geometries for mercury based on a near linear dominant C-Hg-N unit with additional weak Hg-N bonding.