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Preparation and In Vivo Use of an Activity-based Probe for N-acylethanolamine Acid Amidase
Published on: November 23, 2016
Adipic acid-2,6-bis-(1H-benzimidazol-2-yl)pyridine-water (1/2/4)
Songzhu Lin1, Ruokun Jia, Feng Gao
1Northeast Dianli University, Jilin 132012, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
The asymmetric unit of the title hydrated co-crystal, 2C19H13N5·C6H10O4·4H2O, consists of one 2,6-bis-(1H-benzimidazol-2-yl)pyridine mol-ecule, half of an adipic acid mol-ecule (bis-ected by an inversion center) and two water solvates. In the crystal, N-H⋯O, O-H⋯O and O-H⋯N hydrogen bonds and π-π inter-actions [centroid-centroid distances = 3.769 (2) and 3.731 (2) Å] form a three-dimensional supra-molecular structure.
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