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Crystal architecture of the low melting nitrogen heterocycles tetrafluoropyrimidine and trifluorotriazine

  • Vera Vasylyeva EMAIL logo and Klaus Merz
Published/Copyright: August 13, 2014

Abstract

In situ cryo-crystallization was used to obtain single crystals of the low-melting tetrafluoropyrimidine and trifluorotriazine in order to explore the molecular aggregation of nitrogen-containing aromatic compounds with weak directing substituents in the solid state. A comparative crystallographic study of the series hexafluorobenzene, pentafluoropyridine, tetrafluoropyrimidine and trifluorotriazine was performed to clarify an influence of a successive substitution of C-F groups by a further nitrogen atom on the crystal architecture. Due to the absence of the hydrogen atoms different supramolecular motifs based on short F···F contacts were observed in all crystal structures.


Corresponding author: Vera Vasylyeva, Inorganic Chemistry I, Ruhr-University Bochum, Universitaetstr. 150, 44801 Bochum, Germany, E-mail:

Acknowledgments

The authors gratefully acknowlegde the Deutsch Forschungsgesellschaft (FOR 618 “Molecular aggregation”) for the financial support.

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Received: 2014-1-15
Accepted: 2014-6-24
Published Online: 2014-8-13
Published in Print: 2014-9-1

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