PHOSPHONIUM YLIDES AS HYDROGEN-BOND ACCEPTORS - INTERMOLECULAR C-H-CENTER-DOT-CENTER-DOT-CENTER-DOT-C INTERACTIONS IN THE CRYSTAL-STRUCTUREOF TRIPHENYLPHOSPHONIUM BENZYLIDE
As. Batsanov et al., PHOSPHONIUM YLIDES AS HYDROGEN-BOND ACCEPTORS - INTERMOLECULAR C-H-CENTER-DOT-CENTER-DOT-CENTER-DOT-C INTERACTIONS IN THE CRYSTAL-STRUCTUREOF TRIPHENYLPHOSPHONIUM BENZYLIDE, Chemical communications, (15), 1996, pp. 1791-1792
A pairwise alignment of molecules in the crystal structure of the titl
e ylide suggests the existence of mutual C-H ... C interactions betwee
n acidic o-Ph groups of one molecule and the basic carbanionoid centre
of the other, an interpretation which is supported by examination of
previously reported X-ray data.