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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
Synthesis, crystal structure and Hirshfeld surface analysis of a polymeric bis-muthate(III) halide complex,
Chaima Boukoum1, Zouhaier Aloui1, Valeria Ferretti2
1Laboratoire de Chimie des Matériaux, Faculté des Sciences de Bizerte, 7021 Zarzouna Bizerte, Tunisia.
Abstract:
The synthesis and the crystal structure of a new halide-bridged polymer, namely catena-poly[bis-(1,2,3-benzotriazolium) [[tetra-chlorido-bis-muth(III)]-μ-chlorido] dihydrate], {(C6H6N3)2[BiCl5]·2H2O} are reported. The structure comprises polyanionic zigzag chains of formula [(BiCl5)2-] running along the c-axis direction. The 1,2,3-benzotriazolium cations are linked between these polymer chains, via the water mol-ecules, giving rise to left- and right-handed helical chains. Hirshfeld surface analysis and fingerprint plots were used to decode the inter-molecular inter-actions in the crystal network and determine the contribution of the component units for the construction of the three-dimensional architecture.
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