title: Benzyltriphenylphosphonium glutaconaldehyde
abstract: The title compound, C(25)H(22)P(+).C(5)H(5)O(2)(-), crystallizes in space group P2(1)/c. The phosphonium cations form zigzag chains with P.P distances of 6.475 (1) and 8.287 (2) A, and are related by inversion centres. Two types of attractive edge-to-face phenyl interactions exist, resulting in a dominant supramolecular motif. The glutaconaldehyde anions occupy the interchain spacing and hold adjacent chains together via multiple C-H.O hydrogen bonds. The bond-length alternation, a parameter which reveals the non-linear optical efficiency at the molecular level, is optimized in the chromophore anion.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Cristallographie associe a l'Universite Joseph Fourier, CNRS, BP 166, 38042 Grenoble CEDEX, France.
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Muthuraman
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Nicoud
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Masse
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Desiraju