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metal-organic compounds
The crystal structure of catena-poly[[tetraaqua-2κ4O-μ-triphenylacetato-1:2κ2O:O'- bis(triphenylacetato)-1κ4O,O'-dimanganese(II)]-μ- triphenylacetato-2κO:1′κO'], [Mn2(C20H15O2)4(H2O)4]n, was determined at 294 K by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. This compound has a chain structure with repeating dimeric units containing two crystallographically independent MnII atoms bridged by sym–sym-(μ-triphenylacetato-O,O') groups via cis positions.