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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 N-(1H-benzo[d]imidazol-2-yl)acetamide
Akmaljon G Tojiboev1, Rasul Okmanov2, Asqar Abdurazakov2
1University of Geological Sciences, Olimlar str. 64, Tashkent 100170, Uzbekistan.
Abstract:
The crystal structure of the title com-pound, C9H9N3O, was refined using non-spherical scattering factors. This quantum crystallographic approach provided enhanced precision for the H-atom positions and a refined description of the electron density. The asymmetric unit com-prises two mol-ecules (Z' = 2) exhibiting high conformational similarity (r.m.s. deviation between the mol-ecules is 0.083 Å). In the crystal, mol-ecules form pseudocentrosymmetric dimers via inter-molecular N-H⋯O and N-H⋯N hy-dro-gen bonds. These units are further linked into supra-molecular layers characterized by D(1), C 2 2(8), C 2 2(10), R 2 2(8) and R 2 2(12) graph-set motifs. The packing is mainly consolidated by C-H⋯π inter-actions. Hirshfeld surface analysis and two-dimensional fingerprint plots were used to qu-antify the supra-molecular assembly, identifying H⋯H (45%), C⋯H/H⋯C (20.8%), N⋯H/H⋯N (12.2%) and O⋯H/H⋯O (11.5%) contacts as the primary contributors to the crystal packing.
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