Table 1.

Spectroscopic properties of the HgS₂ and HgS₃ species compared to Hg^II/MerR and Hg/L16C complexes. The two entries for CueR are from this work, see Figure 4 C.

Sample	λ [nm]	ϵ [cm−1  mm −1]
Hg‐MerR22	242	19.8
	260	14.6
	290	6.45
1:2 Hg/L16C23	240	2.70
1:3 Hg/L16C23	247	16.8
	265	10.6
	295	5.00
CueR (HgS3)	240	12.6
	250	12.6
	290	5.82
CueR (HgS2)	230	3.52