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Construction and Systematical Symmetric Studies of a Series of Supramolecular Clusters with Binary or Ternary Ammonium Triphenylacetates
Published on: February 15, 2016
Crystal structure of (E)-3-{[2-(2,4-di-chloro-benzyl-idene)hydrazin-1-yl]carbon-yl}pyridinium chloride trihydrate
J Josephine Novina1, G Vasuki2, M Suresh3
1Department of Physics, Idhaya College for Women, Kumbakonam 1, India.
Abstract:
In the title hydrated salt, C13H10Cl2N3O(+)·Cl(-)·3H2O, the organic cation exhibits a dihedral angle of 8.26 (14)° between the mean planes of the pyridinium and benzene rings, and dihedral angles of 8.70 (15) and 15.93 (5)° between the mean planes of the hydrazide group and the benzene and pyridinium rings, respectively. In the crystal, N-H⋯O, N-H⋯Cl, C-H⋯O, C-H⋯Cl, O-H⋯O, O-H⋯N and O-H⋯Cl hydrogen bonds link the complex cations, chloride anions and solvent water mol-ecules into a three-dimensional network.
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