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Published on: July 30, 2017
2-Amino-5-methyl-pyridinium 4-chloro-benzoate
Kaliyaperumal Thanigaimani1, Abbas Farhadikoutenaei, Suhana Arshad
1School of Physics, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 USM, Penang, Malaysia.
Abstract:
The 4-chloro-benzoate anion of the title salt, C6H9N2(+)·C7H4ClO2(-), is nearly planar with a dihedral angle of 5.14 (16)° between the benzene ring and the carboxyl-ate group. In the crystal, the protonated N atom and the 2-amino group of the cation are hydrogen bonded to the carboxyl-ate O atoms of the anion via a pair of N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds with an R2(2)(8) ring motif. The ion pairs are further connected via N-H⋯O and weak C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds, forming a two-dimensional network parallel to the bc plane. The crystal structure also features a π-π stacking inter-action between the pyridinium and benzene rings with a centroid-centroid distance of 3.7948 (9) Å.
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