Strontium thiocyanate

Strontium thiocyanate refers to the salt Sr(SCN)2.

According to X-ray crystallography, it is a coordination polymer.

The Sr2+ ions are each coordinated to eight thiocyanate anions in a distorted square antiprismatic molecular geometry where each square face contains two adjacent S atoms and two adjacent N atoms.

[2]: 1695–1696  The motif is reminiscent of the fluorite structure.

[1] This inorganic compound–related article is a stub.

Solid Sr(SCN) 2 has a complicated polymeric structure as is revealed by this image of a fragment of the lattice. Color code: Sr = turquoise, N = blue, C = gray, S = orange.