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| View down 4 axis | Side view down 2 axis |
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| View down 4 axis | Side view down 2 axis |
This planar anion has a single fourfold axis through the central platinum atom with 4 twofold axes perpendicular to the fourfold, a point of inversion, plus 5 mirror planes, and a -4 axis.
The point group symmetry for this molecule is given the crystallographic symbol 4/m 2/m 2/m, which is usually shortened to 4/m m m.
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| © Copyright 1997-2006. Birkbeck College, University of London. | Author(s): Jeremy Karl Cockcroft |