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THAT the cupric salts of alkanoic acids occur in the solid state in the form of dimeric molecules is shown by van Niekerk and Schoening's X-ray analysis of cupric acetate hydrate (I, R = CH3, L = H2O)1 and by Martin and Waterman's magnetic studies of the acetate and some higher homologues in hydrated and anhydrous forms2. Tsuchida and Yamada have shown that a further characteristic of this structure is the occurrence of an absorption band about 375 mµ, polarized in the copper–copper axis, in addition to the usual ‘copper band’ about 700 mµ3,4.
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GRADDON, D. Nature of Cupric Alkanoate Solutions. Nature 186, 715–716 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/186715b0
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