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Preparation of Stable Bicyclic Aziridinium Ions and Their Ring-Opening for the Synthesis of Azaheterocycles
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r-2,c-6-Bis(4-fluoro-phen-yl)-t-3,t-5-dimethyl-piperidin-4-one
Acta Crystallographica. Section E, Structure Reports Online
|January 5, 2011
Abstract:
In the title compound, C(19)H(19)F(2)NO, the piperidinone ring adopts a chair conformation. The crystal packing is stabilized by C-H⋯O and C-H⋯F inter-molecular inter-actions, generating centrosymmetric dimers of R(2) (2)(14) and R(2) (2)(24) rings.
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