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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 Hirshfeld surface analysis of 4,4'-di-meth-oxy-biphenyl-3,3',5,5'-tetra-carb-oxy-lic acid
Thomas Hanauer1, Wilhelm Seichter1, Monika Mazik1
1Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, Leipziger Str. 29, D-09596 Freiberg/Sachsen, Germany.
Abstract:
In the crystal of the title compound, C18H14O10·2H2O, the arene rings of the biphenyl moiety are tilted at an angle of 24.3 (1)°, while the planes passing through the carboxyl groups are rotated at angles of 8.6 (1) and 7.7 (1)° out of the plane of the benzene ring to which they are attached. The crystal structure is essentially stabilized by O-H⋯O bonds. Here, the carboxyl groups of neighbouring host mol-ecules are connected by cyclic R 2 2(8) synthons, leading to the formation of a three-dimensional network. The water mol-ecules in turn form helical supra-molecular strands running in the direction of the crystallographic c-axis (chain-like water clusters). The second H atom of each water mol-ecule provides a link to a meth-oxy O atom of the host mol-ecule. A Hirshfeld surface analysis was performed to qu-antify the contributions of the different inter-molecular inter-actions, indicating that the most important contributions to the crystal packing are from H⋯O/O⋯H (37.0%), H⋯H (26.3%), H⋯C/C⋯H (18.5%) and C⋯O/O⋯C (9.5%) inter-actions.
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