Triphenylsilanol-4,4'-bipyridyl (4/1): the Z' = 4 polymorph revisited
Giovanni L Cascarano1, George Ferguson, Carmelo Giacovazzo
1Istituto di Cristallografia, CNR, Via G. Amendola 122/O, Bari I-70126, Italy.
Abstract:
A fully ordered structure is reported for the polymorph of triphenylsilanol-4,4'-bipyridyl (4/1), 4C18H16OSi·C10H8N2, having Z' = 4. The asymmetric unit contains four similar but distinct five-molecule aggregates, in which the central bipyridyl unit is linked to two molecules of triphenylsilanol via O-H···N hydrogen bonds, with a further pair of triphenylsilanol molecules linked to the first pair via O-H···O hydrogen bonds. An extensive series of C-H···π(arene) hydrogen bonds links these aggregates into complex sheets. This structure is compared with a previously reported structure [Bowes, Ferguson, Lough & Glidewell (2003). Acta Cryst. B59, 277-286], which was based on an erroneous disordered structural model arising from a false direct-methods solution with reference to a strong pseudo-inversion centre.
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