The crystal structures of seven three-co-ordinated complexes of copper( I) halides with thione ligands, [CuXL,], where L = 1,3-thiazolidine-2-thione and X = CI or Br, L = N-ethylimidazolidine-2-thione and X = Br, L = N-isopropylimidazolidine-2-thione and X = CI or Br, and L = N-propylimidazolidine-2thione and X = CI or I have been determined. In all complexes, the copper lies in a trigonal-planar environment and the thiazolidine or imidazolidine rings show n o major distortion from planarity. Owing to the presence of hydrogen bonding involving H[N(2)], or H[N(02)], and the halogen atom all complexes adopt a W-shaped conformation. The 63Cu NQR frequencies of these complexes, together with those of two other similar complexes whose structures were already available, depend, for a given halide, on the S-Cu-S bond angle, a decrease in angle producing an increase in resonance frequency: v, , = 28.7 -0.544A8 and v,, = 26.9 -0.229A8 MHz, where A8 is the difference between the S-Cu-S bond angle and 120". This behaviour has been rationalized in terms of a partial field-gradient model of the resonance frequencies.We have previously reported studies of the 63Cu NQR spectra of Cu' complexes with a variety of charges, co-ordination numbers and ligand~.'-~ The 63Cu NQR spectra of the threeco-ordinated complexes, [CuXL,], of N-alkylimidazolidine-2thiones (L) with cuprous halides '9, led us to believe that there was a possible correlation between the L-Cu-L bond angle and the resonance frequency for the complex of a given halide. To investigate this point further we have determined the crystal structures of seven complexes of this type: L = 1,3-thiazolidine-2-thione, X = C11 or Br 2; L = N-ethylimidazolidine-2-thione, X = Br 5; L = N-isopropylimidazolidine-2-thione, X = Cl 6 or Br 7; and L = N-propylimidazolidine-2-thione, X = C18 or I 9. The crystal structures of two other complexes [CuClL,] (L = N-methylimidazolidine-2-thione 3 or N-ethylimidazolidine-2-thione 4) were already available. ' ' 3 'These results confirm the existence of the correlation and we report here the results of this study.
ExperimentalPreparations.-The preparations of the ligands and the Cu' complexes [CuXL,] have been reported previously. ' , 2 Crystals suitable for X-ray crystallographic studies were obtained by recrystallization from 1,Zdichloroethane (1, 2, 5 and 9), or acetone (6 and 7).X-Ray CrystaZlography.--Cell parameters and reflection intensities were measured at room temperature on automatic four-circle diffractometers with graphite-monochromated Mo-