Diphenylmercury, redetermined at 120 K: sheets built from a single C-H...pi(arene) hydrogen bond

Christopher Glidewell; John N Low; James L Wardell

doi:10.1107/S0108270104034134

Diphenylmercury, redetermined at 120 K: sheets built from a single C-H...pi(arene) hydrogen bond

Acta Crystallogr C. 2005 Feb;61(Pt 2):m107-8. doi: 10.1107/S0108270104034134. Epub 2005 Jan 31.

Authors

Christopher Glidewell¹, John N Low, James L Wardell

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, University of Aberdeen, Meston Walk, Old Aberdeen AB24 3UE, Scotland. cg@st-andrews.ac.uk

PMID: 15695887
DOI: 10.1107/S0108270104034134

Abstract

At 120 K, the molecules of the title compound, [Hg(C6H5)2], lie across centres of inversion in space group P2(1)/n and are linked by a single C-H...pi(arene) hydrogen bond into (101) sheets. The same supramolecular structure is found at 298 K.