Abstract. [CrBr2(Ct0H24Na)]Br, Mr = 492.0, tetragonal, P42/m, a= 7.860 (1), c= 13.507 (2) A, V= 834"5 (3) A 3, Z = 2, Dx = 1"96 g cm -3, A(Cu Ka) = 1-54184/~, /z = 119.4cm -1, F(000) =483.96, room temperature, R = 0.0722 for 637 observed reflections. The cyclam moiety exists in a chair conformation with exact 2/m symmetry. The twofold axis passes through Cr and bisects the C(1)---C(I') and C(I")--C(I'") bonds of the five-membered chelate * To whom correspondence should be addressed.0108-2701/90/030396-04503.00rings; the mirror plane also passes through Cr and contains atoms C(4) and C(4') of the cyclam moiety. The Br.-.Br' vector is tilted by 2.4 ° from the perpendicular to the CrN4 plane. Zaleski (1904) and Taylor (1940), for example.Increasing interest has been shown recently in the chromium complexes of cyclic ligands. Although several workers have prepared and studied transdibromo complexes of Ru, Co, Cu and Cr with 5,6,12,12,14-hexamethyl-1,4,8,11-tetraazacyclotetradecane, preparation of the corresponding transdibromo cyclam complex is not known. The title complex has now been prepared in the pure form and crystallized. It is particularly interesting because components of all three spin-forbidden electronic transitions have been located and assigned (Gazi, 1988).Experimental. Crystals of the title compound were grown from a saturated green solution that was slowly evaporated over sodium hydroxide. Brightgreen square platy crystal 0.30 >< 0.30 × 0.14 mm used for data collection, preliminary Weissenberg photographs yielded approximate cell dimensions and showed tetragonal (4/m) Laue symmetry. Space group P42 or P4Jm indicated from systematic absences (00l: l = 2n + 1); P42/m confirmed by structure analysis.Enraf-Nonius CAD-4 diffractometer; 25 highangle reflections (20°< 0<40 ° ) used to obtain accurate cell dimensions by least-squares fit. at--20 scan width (0-90 + 0.14 tan0) ° in w, vertical aperture 6 mm. 4992 reflections measured (-6 < h ___ 6, 0 _ k _8, -15_3~r(/) with Rint=0"039. The structure was solved by Patterson and difference Fourier methods. The pyramidal nitrogen H atoms were positioned unambiguously by refinement of an isotropic thermal parameter for each of the geometrically positioned alternative tetrahedral sites, defined with respect to the C--N--C moiety, Cr being at too great a distance to be considered by the program for the purposes of this calculation. The incorrect alternative site acquires an unacceptably high value for this at z = ~generates ...