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8-Iodo-quinolinium triiodide tetra-hydro-furan solvate
Jung-Ho Son1, James D Hoefelmeyer
1Department of Chemistry, The University of South Dakota, 414 E. Clark Street, Vermillion, SD 57069, USA.
Abstract:
The title compound, C(9)H(7)IN(+)·I(3) (-)·C(4)H(8)O, was synthesized from 8-amino-quinoline using the Sandmeyer reaction. The 8-iodo-quinolinium cation is essentially planar and the triiodide ion is almost linear. N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds, and inter-molecular I⋯I [3.7100 (5) Å] and I⋯H inter-actions, between the cation, anion and solvent mol-ecules result in the formation of sheets oriented parallel to the (03) plane. Between the sheets, 8-iodo-quinolinium and triiodide ions are stacked alternately, with I⋯C distances in the range ∼3.8-4.0 Å.
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