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Published on: April 27, 2017
N,N'-Bis[3,5-bis-(2,6-diisopropyl-phen-yl)phen-yl]butane-2,3-diimine
Tracy L Lohr1, Warren E Piers, Masood Parvez
1Department of Chemistry, The University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4.
Abstract:
The title mol-ecule, C(64)H(80)N(2), lies on an inversion center wherein the central butane-diimine fragment [N=C(Me)-C(Me)=N] is essentially planar [maximum deviation = 0.002 (2) Å] and its mean plane forms a dihedral of 70.88 (10)° with the attached benzene ring. In the symmetry-unique part of the mol-ecule, the dihedral angles between the benzene ring bonded to the N atom and the other two benzene rings are 89.61 (6) and 82.77 (6)°.
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