The halogen bond made visible: experimental charge density of a very short intermolecular Cl···Cl donor-acceptor contact.

[ZnCl(2)(3,4,5-trichloropyridine)(2)] features short intermolecular Cl···Cl contacts between halogen atoms of different nature, and a charge density study provides experimental evidence for the accepted model of the halogen bonds: an arene-bonded Cl atom acts as a donor of electron density towards the "sigma hole" of a chlorido ligand attached to a neighbouring Zn(II) cation.

Titanium complexes with sulfur-linked bis(phenolate) ligands.

High-quality crystals of two bis(phenolate)titanium complexes, namely dichlorido{4,4'-dimethyl-2,2'-[cyclohexane-1,2-diylbis(sulfanediyl)]diphenolato}titanium(IV), [Ti(C(20)H(22)O(2)S(2))Cl(2)], (I), and dichlorido{2,2'-[cyclohexane-1,2-diylbis(sulfanediyl)]diphenolato}titanium(IV), [Ti(C(18)H(18)O(2)S(2))Cl(2)], (II), were obtained by reactive crystallization. Depending on the solvent, compound (II) was obtained as unsolvated (IIa) or as the toluene hemisolvate, [Ti(C(18)H(18)O(2)S(2))Cl(2)].0.