Carbon tetrachloride molecule is accommodated in the cavity formed in the three-dimensional framework of cadmium cyanide to give the title clathrate compound. The cavity has a shape of adamantane-like cage edged with –Cd–CN–Cd– linkage where the Cd atom takes a tetrahedral configuration.
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Kitazawa et al. (1988) studied this question.