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July 2022 issue

Cover illustration: [(1,2,5,6-η)-Cycloocta-1,5-diene](4-isopropyl-1-methyl-1,2,4-triazol-5-ylidene)(tricyclohexylphosphane-κP)iridium(I) tetrafluoridoborate dichloromethane monosolvate, [Ir(C8H12)(C6H11N3)(C18H33P)]BF4·CH2Cl2, a triazole-based N-heterocyclic carbene iridium(I) cationic complex with a tetrafluoridoborate counter-anion, crystallizes with one dichloromethane solvent molecule per formula unit. The IrI atom of the cationic complex has a distorted square-planar coordination environment, defined by a bidentate cycloocta-1,5-diene (COD) ligand, an N-heterocyclic carbene, and a tricyclohexylphosphane ligand. The complex crystallizes in a C-centered monoclinic unit cell and has an unusually high number of eight formula units. See:Rushlow, Astashkin, Albert & Rajaseelan [IUCrData (2022). 7, x220685].
inorganic compounds
The djurleite phase with composition Cu61.39S32 was refined from a natural twinned specimen and shows disorder of some of its Cu sites.
The solid solution with composition SnTe0.73 (2)Se0.27 (2) crystallizes in the NaCl structure type.
metal-organic compounds
The IrI atom in the complex cation of the title salt has a distorted square-planar coordination environment, defined by a bidentate cycloocta-1,5-diene (COD) ligand, an N-heterocyclic carbene, and a tricyclohexylphosphane ligand.
organic compounds
The quinoxaline portion of the title molecule is not quite planar and the conformation of the entire molecule is `U-shaped', which is consolidated by an intramolecular antiparallel carbonyl electrostatic interaction. In the crystal, the molecules form corrugated layers through C—H⋯O and C—H⋯N hydrogen bonds and C—H⋯π(ring) and π-stacking interactions.
The asymmetric unit comprises three independent molecules, two pairs of which differ significantly in the rotational orientation of the azido group and one pair having very similar conformations. Zigzag chains extending along the c-axis direction are formed individually by each independent molecule through N—H⋯O hydrogen bonds.