Abstract. C IoH24CdN60652, Mr= 500.9, monoclinic, P2Jc, a= 12.507 (4), b= 7.270 (4),c= 21.67 (1),~,, fl=95.42(4) ° , V=1961/~a, Z=4, D x=1.696, D m = 1.68 (1) g cm -3, Mo K~ 2 = 0.71073 ./k, g=13.51cm -I, F(000)=1016, T~291K, R= 0.054, R w--0.060 for 2897 observations. Compound synthesized by authors. The structure consists of isolated ion triplets from an approximately tetrahedral environment about Cd with Cd-S distances of 2.498 (2) ,/~ and Cd-O distances of 2.295 (4)/~. These species are separated from their neighbors by ordinary van der Waals distances. The solid-state magic-angle spinning ~3Cd NMR of this compound was observed at +263 p.p.m, deshielded from the aqueous Cd(C104) 2 standard.