Poly[[(acetonitrile)lithium(I)]-μ3-tetrafluoridoborato]

The structure of the title compound, [Li(BF4)(CH3CN)]n, consists of a layered arrangement parallel to (100) in which the Li+ cations are coordinated by three F atoms from three tetrafluoridoborate (BF4−) anions and an N atom from an acetonitrile molecule. The BF4− anion is coordinated to three different Li+ cations though three F atoms. The structure can be described as being built from vertex-shared BF4 and LiF3(NCCH3) tetrahedra. These tetrahedra reside around a crystallographic inversion center and form 8-membered rings.