STRUCTURE OF A PHOSPHAZENE ANILINE COMPOUND

The title compound [bis(trimethylphosphine phenyl-imide)-bis(aniline) (I), a 1:1 ratio of phosphazene and aniline molecules] was synthesized from the trapping of an in situ palladium nitrene complex with trimet hylphosphine. Crystals of (I) consist of tetramers (two phosphazene an d two aniline molecules) located at the 0,0,1/2) center of inversion i n the space group P1BAR. The N atoms of the phosphazene molecules are involved in bifurcated hydrogen bonds with the amino H atoms of the an iline molecules.