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Palladium N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes: Synthesis from Benzimidazolium Salts and Catalytic Activity in Carbon-carbon Bond-forming Reactions
Published on: July 30, 2017
N,N'-Bis(4-bromo-benzyl-idene)butane-1,4-diamine
Abstract:
The mol-ecule of the title Schiff base compound, C(18)H(18)Br(2)N(2), lies across a crystallographic inversion centre and adopts an E configuration with respect to the C=N bond. In the crystal structure, mol-ecules are linked into chains along [201] through inter-molecular Br⋯Br inter-actions [3.3747 (3) Å], which are significantly shorter than the sum of the van der Waals radii for Br atoms (3.70 Å). The crystal structure is further stabilized by π-π stacking inter-actions [centroid-centroid distance 3.6811 (11) Å].
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