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Poly[μ6-(naphthalene-2,6-di-carboxyl-ato)-bis-(aqua-lithium)]
Lionel Fédèle1, Frédéric Sauvage1, Matthieu Becuwe1
1Laboratoire de Réactivité et Chimie des Solides (LRCS), Université de Picardie Jules Verne, CNRS UMR 7314, 33 rue Saint Leu, 80039, Amiens, France.
Abstract:
The title compound, [Li2(C12H6O4)(H2O)2] n , crystallizes with one half of the molecular entities in the asymmetric unit. The second half is gererated by inversion symmetry. The crystal structure has a layered arrangement built from distorted edge-sharing LiO3(OH)2 tetra-hedra parallel to (100), with naphthalenedi-carboxyl-ate bridging the LiO3(OH)2 layers along the [100] direction. Hydrogen bonding between the water molecule and adjacent carboxylate groups consolidates the packing.
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