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Wayland E Noland1, Doyle Britton1, Gregory K Sutton1
1Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, 207 Pleasant St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
Abstract:
The title crystals, C7H2I3N, are isomorphous. Both mol-ecules lie across two crystallographic mirror planes and a twofold axis. The principal supra-molecular inter-action is centric R22(10) CN/NC⋯I short contacts involving both ortho I atoms, with two contacts bis-ecting each cyano and iso-cyano group. These form ribbons along [010] and give rise to a planar sheet structure parallel to (100). All pairs of adjacent sheets have centric stacking, a mode not previously reported for sheets of this type. This study completes the series of homo-2,4,6-trihalobenzo-nitriles, in which I atoms give the strongest CN⋯X and NC⋯X inter-actions (X = F, Cl, Br, I).
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