A zirconium zwitterion containing a caged amine H atom.
The crystallographically centrosymmetric zwitterion bis[tris(3,5-dimethyl-2-oxidobenzyl-kappaO)ammonium]zirconium(IV) crystallizes as the chloroform disolvate, [Zr(C(27)H(31)NO(3))(2)].2CHCl(3), with the two molecules of chloroform closely associated with two of the aromatic rings. The Zr atom has a distorted octahedral geometry with three phenoxy O atoms from each of the two ligands coordinated to it. Charge balance is maintained by protonation of each N atom, which then forms intramolecular hydrogen-bonding interactions to all three adjacent O atoms.
Nielson
Alastair J
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Department of Chemistry, Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University at Albany, Private Bag 102904, North Shore Mail Centre, Auckland, New Zealand. a.j.nelson@massey.ac.nz
Shen
Chaohong
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Waters
Joyce M
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