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Ana María Atria1, Maria Teresa Garland, Ricardo Baggio
1Facultad de Ciencias Químicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Abstract:
The asymmetric unit of the title compound, {[La(C(4)H(5)O(2))(3)(H(2)O)(2)]·C(5)H(5)N(5)·H(2)O}(n), consists of an La(III) cation, three crotonate (but-2-enoate) anions and two coordinated water molecules forming the neutral complex, completed by an external adenine molecule and one hydration water molecule. The LaO(10) coordination polyhedra, connected through the sharing of a single edge, form isolated chains running along the [100] direction. These one-dimensional structures are characterized by two different centrosymmetric La(2)O(2) loops, with La...La distances of 4.5394 (6) and 4.5036 (6) Å. The unbound adenine and water solvent molecules form a highly planar hydrogen-bonded array parallel to (110) (r.m.s. deviation from the mean plane < 0.10 Å) which intersects the isolated La-crotonate chains in a slanted fashion to form an extremely connected hydrogen-bonded three-dimensional structure.
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