Silver Coordination and Organometallic Compounds: Classification and Analysis of Crystallographic and Structural Data

This review summarizes the data for almost six hundred silver coordination and organometallic compounds, with the silver atom occurring in oxidation states of +1, +2, and two examples of +3 in a square-planar environment. The +2 oxidation state is found in digonal, square-planar, tetrahedral and hexa-coordinated environments. The +1 oxidation state is by far the most common in various geometries from two to seven. The nuclearity range from mono- to polynuclear utilizing a variety of ligand types. There are several examples of distortion isomerism, and a few examples of polymerization isomerism. Correlations between bond lengths, bond angles, ligating atom radius and silver oxidation state are discussed.