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Published on: March 24, 2018
4-Methyl-anilinium perchlorate 18-crown-6 clathrate
1Ordered Matter Science Research Center, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
In the title compound, C(7)H(10)N(+)·ClO(4) (-)·C(12)H(24)O(6), the 4-methyl-anilinium cation inter-acts with an 18-crown-6 mol-ecule forming a rotator-stator-like structure through bifurcated N-H⋯(O,O) hydrogen bonds between the ammonium group of the cation and the O atoms of the crown ether mol-ecule. All three components of the structure possess mirror symmetry. The benzene ring is inclined to the mean plane of the crown ether molecule by 86.84 (8)°.
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