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Preparation of Stable Bicyclic Aziridinium Ions and Their Ring-Opening for the Synthesis of Azaheterocycles
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(S)-1-(2-Chloro-phen-yl)-2-oxocyclo-hexan-1-aminium d-tartrate
Acta Crystallographica. Section E, Structure Reports Online
|April 28, 2011
Abstract:
In the title compound, C(12)H(15)ClNO(+)·C(4)H(5)O(6) (-), the cyclo-hexa-none ring adopts a chair conformation. The benzene ring is significantly twisted so that it is in an almost perpendicular position to the C-N bond with a C(Ar)-C(Ar)-C-N torsion angle of -96.5 (5)°. Intermolecular N-H⋯O and O-H⋯O hydrogen bonds are observed in the crystal structure.
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