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Preparation of Stable Bicyclic Aziridinium Ions and Their Ring-Opening for the Synthesis of Azaheterocycles
Published on: August 22, 2018
4-(2-Hydroxy-ethyl)anilinium 3-carb-oxy-4-hydroxy-benzene-sulfonate monohydrate
Abstract:
In the structure of the title compound, C(8)H(12)NO(+)·C(7)H(5)O(6)S(-)·H(2)O, isolated from the reaction of 2-(4-amino-phen-yl)ethanol with 5-sulfosalicylic acid, the cations form head-to-tail hydrogen-bonded chains through C(1) (1)(9) anilinium N(+)-H⋯O(hydrox-yl) inter-actions while the anions also form parallel but C(1) (1)(8)-linked chains through carboxylic acid O-H⋯O(sulfonate) inter-actions. These chains inter-associate through a number of N(+)-H⋯O and O-H⋯O bridging inter-actions, giving a two-dimensional array in the ab plane.
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