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@Canageek Nitrate ligands also bound to the UO2++? also, I assume there is another pair of uranyl cations bound to the other pair of cyano ligands?

@Canageek what's the molecular weight of this polymer? is it a soluble oligomer or is it enormous?

@mona Effectively the size of the crystal, it doesn't have a defined MW in the same way an organic polymer does, and only exists in the crystal state.

@Canageek ah, got you. I was vaguely imagining some kind of precipitated high-molecular-weight complex, like a "Prussian blue".

@mona Yeah, think more like a sodium chloride crystal.

This is exactly like prussian blue, actually, that is the example our group uses when explaining it.

@Canageek Are the nitrate ligands subject to exchange?

@mona They usually just do salt metathesis and leave. Do you want a copy of the paper?