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Construction and Systematical Symmetric Studies of a Series of Supramolecular Clusters with Binary or Ternary Ammonium Triphenylacetates
Published on: February 15, 2016
Symmetric hydrogen bonding in dimethylammonium hydrogen diphenyldiphosphonate
Brandy H Courtney1, Booker W O Juma, Steven F Watkins
1Department of Chemistry, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-1804, USA.
Abstract:
In the title compound, C2H8N+.C12H11O5P2-, pairs of hydrogen diphenyldiphosphonate anions form dimers across a twofold axis, with two symmetric O...H...O hydrogen bonds [O...O = 2.406 (3) and 2.418 (3) A]. The 12-membered ring thus formed has crystallographic 2 and quasi-222 symmetry. Cations on either side of the ring form N-H...O hydrogen bonds to the four extraannular O atoms, with N...O distances of 2.765 (2) and 2.748 (3) A.
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