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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
Bis(benzyl-aminium) 4,5-dichloro-benzene-1,2-dicarboxyl-ate monohydrate
1Science and Engineering Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, GPO Box 2434, Brisbane, Queensland 4001, Australia.
Abstract:
In the structure of the title salt, 2C(7)H(10)N(+)·C(8)H(2)Cl(2)O(4) (2-)·H(2)O, the two benzyl-aminium anions have different conformations, one being essentially planar and the other having the side chain rotated out of the benzene plane [minimum ring to side-chain C-C-C-N torsion angles = -3.6 (6) and 50.1 (5)°, respectively]. In the 4,5-dichloro-phthalate dianion, the carboxyl-ate groups make dihedral angles of 23.0 (2) and 76.5 (2)° with the benzene ring. In the crystal, aminium N-H⋯O and water O-H⋯O hydrogen-bonding associations with carboxyl-ate O-atom acceptors give a two-dimensional duplex sheet structure which extends along the (011) plane. Weak π-π inter-actions are also present between the benzene ring of the dianion and one of the cation rings [minimum ring centroid separation = 2.749 (3) Å].
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