“…11 different structures containing the tetraiodothallate(III) anion have been reported and of these only two have the anion on a site of high crystallographic symmetry. Often the nature of the cation keeps the space-group symmetry low (Drew et al, 1970;Glaser et al, 1982Glaser et al, , 1983Beno et al, 1987;Geiser et al, 1988Geiser et al, , 1996Riera et al, 1989;Tebbe et al, 1995;Ilyukhin et al, 2000;Slavin et al, 2000), but even CsTlI 4 crystallizes in space group P2 1 /c with the anion in a general position (Thiele et al, 1986). In the salt with the Et 3 S + cation (Svensson et al, 2000), the [TlI 4 ] À anion sits on a fourfold inversion centre, but the cation is reported to be so highly disordered that the C atoms were not included in the model, thus detracting from the precision of the geometry of the anion.…”