1,4-Diethynyl-2,5-dimethoxybenzene at ca 150 K.
The principal determinants of packing in crystals of the title compound, C(12)H(10)O(2), which has crystallographically imposed inversion symmetry, are interactions between the alkyne H atoms and the methoxy O atoms [H...O = 2.39 (1) A].
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Department of Chemistry, University of Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia.
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Nicholas J
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Allan H
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Skelton
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