Lessons from an unlikely cadmium carbonyl compound
Complete structural reassignment sees cadmium, carbon and chlorine replaced with rhenium, nitrogen and sulfur
Researchers in the US have uncovered a structure where rhenium had been misidentified as cadmium, yet had acceptable refinement standards for publication. Atoms with similar atomic numbers can be hard to differentiate using x-ray diffraction but such unprecedented confusion between atoms with a shift in atomic number of 27 may mean that misidentified structures could be a more widespread concern than previously realised.