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N-(2,6-Dimethyl-anilino)-5,6-dihydro-4H-1,3-thia-zin-3-ium chloride monohydrate
Mikelis V Veidis1, Liana Orola, Reinis Arajs
1University of Latvia, Kr. Valdemara 48, Riga, LV 1013, Latvia.
Acta Crystallographica. Section E, Structure Reports Online
|January 5, 2011
Abstract:
In the title compound, alternatively called xylazine hydro-chloride monohydrate, C(12)H(17)N(2)S(+)·Cl(-)·H(2)O, the six-membered thia-zine ring is in a half-chair conformation. In the crystal structure, six component centrosymmetric clusters are formed via inter-molecular O-H⋯Cl, N-H⋯O and N-H⋯Cl hydrogen bonds involving xylazine cations, chloride anions and water mol-ecules.
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