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C-H … N hydrogen bonding in an overlayer of s-triazine physisorbed on a graphite surface
Jonathan A Davidson1, Stephen J Jenkins1, Fabrice Gorrec2
1Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Abstract:
The structure of a crystalline monolayer of 1,3,5-triazine has been characterised using X-ray diffraction. The monolayer is found to exhibit a hexagonal unit cell with a lattice parameter of 6.161(5) Å, indicating the formation of C-H … N hydrogen bonds. DFT simulations have been performed exhibiting close agreement with the experimental structure. By comparing the strength of the intermolecular interactions both with and in the absence of Van der Waals corrections, it is possible to estimate an interaction strength for the weak C-H … N hydrogen bonds.
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