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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
2-Amino-5-bromo-pyridinium 3-amino-benzoate
Madhukar Hemamalini1, Hoong-Kun Fun
1X-ray Crystallography Unit, School of Physics, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 USM, Penang, Malaysia.
Abstract:
In the title salt, C(5)H(6)BrN(2) (+)·C(7)H(6)NO(2) (-), the pyridine N atom of the 2-amino-5-bromo-pyridine mol-ecule is protonated. In the crystal, the protonated N atom and the 2-amino group are hydrogen-bonded to the carboxyl-ate O atoms via a pair of N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds, forming an R(2) (2)(8) ring motif. Two inversion-related 3-amino-benzoate anions are linked through N-H⋯O hydrogen-bonds, forming an R(2) (2)(14) ring motif. The crystal structure is further stabilized by π⋯π inter-actions involving the benzene and pyridinium rings with a centroid-centroid distance of 3.7743 (15) Å.
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