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Combining halogen and hydrogen bonding in the 1 : 1 molecular salt (hexamethylenetetraminium) · (p-iodobenzoate) to form 1-D zig-zag chains

  • Andreas Lemmerer
Published/Copyright: March 2, 2011
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Abstract

The crystal structure of the molecular salt (hexamethylenetetraminium) · (p-iodobenzoate) is the first example of a complex using the hexamethylene (HMTA) molecule that has both halogen and hydrogen bonding. The desired supramolecular packing arrangement of 1-D zig-zag chains was observed. A detailed breakdown of related HMTA complexes in the literature was used to show that zig-zag chains are a common packing feature of HMTA complexes with bifunctional molecules. The crystal structure determination of the molecular salt shows that the two intermolecular interactions N—H+···OOC and N···I are positionally disordered around a centre of inversion.


* Correspondence address: University of the Witwatersrand, School of Chemistry, Molecular Science Institute, 2050 Johannesburg, Südafrika,

Published Online: 2011-03-02
Published in Print: 2011-05

© by Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Johannesburg, Germany

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