“…So chloromercurates(II) usually exhibit a wide range of geome-tries, stereometries and connectivities (Grdenic, 1965;Linden et al, 1999). Among these fascinating structures, one-dimensional chloromercurate(II) inorganic chains show a great variety of architectures, and it is impossible to predict their coordination geometry due to the wide range of different HgÁ Á ÁCl contacts (Aharoni et al, 1989;Bats et al, 1980;Rabe & Muller, 1999;Zabel et al, 2005). , Linden et al (1999 reported several chloropyridinium chloromercurate(II) compounds, showing that an [Hg x Cl y ] nÀ polymer was usually made up of the subunits HgCl 2 , Cl À , [HgCl 3 ] À and [HgCl 4 ] 2À .…”