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S-Ethyl N-(4-chlorobenzoyl)dithiocarbamate: sheets built from pi-stacked hydrogen-bonded chains
John N Low1, Justo Cobo, Henry Insuasty
1Department of Chemistry, University of Aberdeen, Meston Walk, Old Aberdeen AB24 3UE, Scotland. che562@abdn.ac.uk
Abstract:
Molecules of the title compound, C10H10ClNOS2, are linked into C4 chains by an N-H...O hydrogen bond [H...O = 2.16 A, N...O = 3.013 (3) A and N-H...O = 176 degrees ], and the chains are linked into sheets by a centrosymmetric pi-pi stacking interaction.
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