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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 and void analysis of tris-(2-amino-1-methyl-benzimidazolium) hexa-kis-(nitrato-κ2
Bakhtigul Ruzieva1,2, Rishad Kunafiev1,3, Zukhra Kadirova1
1Uzbekistan-Japan Innovation Center of Youth, University street 2B, Tashkent 100095, Uzbekistan.
Abstract:
The organic-inorganic complex salt, (C8H10N3)3[La(NO3)6], comprises a network of N-protonated 2-amino-1-methyl-benzimidazolium cations and hexa-kis-(nitrato)lanthanate(III) anions. The LaIII atom is twelve-coordinate within a distorted icosa-hedral environment. In the unit cell, each pair of the LaIII atoms lie nearly on one of the crystallographic glide planes. In the crystal structure, there are several N-H⋯O hydrogen-bonding inter-actions between the cations and terminal oxygen atoms from the nitrate moieties of the [La(NO3)6]3- anion. Additional weak C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds between the cations and anions consolidate the three-dimensional arrangement of the structure. A packing analysis was performed to check the strength of the crystal packing.
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