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R Chitra1, Vijay Thiruvenkatam, R R Choudhury
1Solid State Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai, India. rchitra@apsara.barc.ernet.in
Abstract:
In the title 2:1 salt, 2C2H6NO2+.C2O4(2-), the glycine molecule is in the cationic form with a positively charged amino group and an uncharged carboxylic acid group. The doubly charged oxalate anion lies across a crystallographic inversion centre. One of the reasons why the 1:1 glycinium oxalate salt has a higher melting point than the title compound may be the difference in their hydrogen-bonding patterns. A database search for salts formed between amino acids or substituted amino acids and oxalic acid revealed that, in most of the structures, the conformation about the O=C-OH bond is synplanar. D-Tryptophan oxalate is the only example where the OH group of a semi-oxalate adopts an antiplanar conformation. The 2:1 stoichiometry seen in the present salt is observed only in the salts of DL-serine, DL-aspartic acid and betaine with oxalic acid.
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