| Abstract: | The double salt CuCl2(H2O)2{CdCl2}]·2H2O crystallizes in the triclinic rather than the monoclinic system as reported previously. The structure consists of sheets in the ac plane with slightly distorted octahedral CdCl6 Cd—Cl 2.5813 (8)–2.6943 (8) Å] connected by Cd—Cl—Cd bridges in the Cd equatorial plane along a , and by Cd—Cl—Cu bridges to layers of square‐planar CuCl2(H2O)2 along c . There are long axial Cu—Cl interactions of 2.8623 (7) Å and additional water of hydration is hydrogen bonded to coordinated water and chloride ligands. The additional water connects the ac sheets into a three‐dimensional network. Both Cd and Cu occupy different  sites. The Cu?Cu and Cd?Cd distances are 3.8274 (6) Å. |
