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1,2-Bis(pyridin-4-yl)ethene-4-hy-droxy-3-meth-oxy-benzoic acid (1/1)
Devin J Angevine1, Jason B Benedict1
1Department of Chemistry, The State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York 14260-3000, USA.
Abstract:
In the title 1:1 co-crystal [alternatively called bi-pyridine ethyl-ene-p-vanillic acid (1/1)], C12H10N2·C8H8O4, the dihedral angle between the pyridine rings is 59.51 (5)°. In the crystal, the mol-ecules are linked by O-H⋯N hydrogen bonds, generating [401] chains of alternating C12H10N2 and C8H8O4 mol-ecules.
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