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ISSN: 2053-2296

November 2019 issue

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Cover illustration: A new mesogenic com­pound containing the fluorene moiety exhibits enanti­otropic nematic liquid crystalline behaviour with melting at 125 °C and isotropization at 175 °C. The crystallographically independent unit contains two mol­ecules oriented face-to-edge with respect to each other. See Gupta, Choudhury, Dmochowska, Kula, Borbone & Centore [Acta Cryst. (2019), C75, 1459-1464].

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The light-atom com­pound (2S)-methyl (Z)-5-(2-tert-but­oxy-1-cyano-2-oxo­ethyl­idene)pyrrolidine-2-carboxyl­ate is an enanti­opure coordination partner for cations. Despite its only minor resonant scattering, the absolute structure was determined by a combination of diffraction, CD spectroscopy and theoretical calculations.

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Multiple noncovalent inter­actions can play a decisive role in both the mol­ecular and crystal structure of 1,5-bis­([1,1′-biphen­yl]-4-yl)-5-hy­droxy-3-methyl­heptane-1,6-dione.

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A new mesogenic com­pound containing the fluorene moiety exhibits enanti­otropic nematic liquid crystalline behaviour with melting at 125 °C and isotropization at 175 °C. The crystallographically independent unit contains two mol­ecules oriented face-to-edge with respect to each other.

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The crystal structure and crystallization conditions of a novel form of metacetamol, the hemihydrate, are reported. Its crystal packing was analysed and compared with the packings of the two previously known polymorphs of metacetamol.

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A new crystal form of PhSeCl3 is reported. The primary structural feature is selenium–chlorine bridging inter­actions, forming noncovalent dimeric units.

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A new heterobimetallic cyanide-bridged FeIII–MnII coordination polymer has been rationally designed and presents a cyanide-bridged cationic linear one-dimensional chain structure, with ClO4 as the charge-balancing anion, which is further expanded into a two-dimensional supra­molecular structure by inter­molecular π–π inter­actions. Both the experimental investigation and the theoretical calculations revealed an anti­ferromagnetic coupling between the cyanide-bridged FeIII and MnII centres.

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The structure of the low-temperature triclinic variety α-BaZr2F10 is described and com­pared to the high-temperature β-variety directly recrystallizing from barium fluorido­zirconate glasses.

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The first ternary BaF2–Ln(Y)F3–ZrF4 phases crystallizing near the com­position range of fluoride glasses, namely Ba4YZr3F23 and isotypic Ba4LnZr3F23 (Ln = Yb, Er and Nd), have been synthesized and their new noncentrosymmetric structure type described.

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This work reports a new potassium dysprosium polyborate, K3DyB6O12, that can be described as a three-dimensional framework com­posed of bicyclic [B5O10]5− groups and Dy3+ and K+ ions. Moreover, a series of K3Gd1–xDyxB6O12 phosphors was prepared and the photoluminescence properties were investigated.

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The powder X-ray diffraction technique was used to determine the crystal structures of two new organic–inorganic hybrid materials forming three-dimensional networks composed of alternating organic and inorganic layers. Thermal stability tests of the materials indicated that one is stable up to 537 K and the other is stable up to 437 K.

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The crystal structures presented herein consist of two positively charged FeIII–HMC com­plexes, each of which was prepared from the pure meso- or rac-HMC ligand and which adopt trans or cis configurations, respectively.

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The title com­pound contains various types of bridging ligands which generate a three-dimensional structure. A photoluminescence study shows a blue photoluminescence originating from the CuI centre to the unoccupied π* orbital of the cyanide ligand.

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The structures of two new coordination polymers, ACr(C2O4)2(H2O)4, with A = Li (C2/m) and Na (P\overline{1}), consist of alkali metal and Cr octa­hedra μ2-bridged by oxalate ligands. The resulting one-dimensional chains are connected together through hydrogen-bond motifs, leading to two-dimensional frameworks. However, they differ in the crystal packing, the hydrogen-bond networks and the oxygen disorder in the former polymer.

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The crystal structure of several type-I clathrates with formulae K8AlxSn46–x and Rb8AlxSn46–x (x ≃ 6.4–9.7) have been accurately established from single-crystal X-ray diffraction data. Structural analysis shows the substitutional disorder on all three Sn sites and the presence of fully occupied guest atoms in both clathrate cages.

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Two derivatives of 3-(1,3,4-oxa­diazol-2-yl)-2H-chromen-2-one have been synthesized on the assumption of their potential anti­cancer activities and their poly­morphic modifications have been thoroughly studied. The method used for analysis, which was based on a com­parison of the pairwise inter­action energies between mol­ecules, allowed the differences in the crystal packing and the roles of different types of inter­molecular inter­actions to be elucidated.

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Three organic two-photon-absorbing cyclo­alkanone chromophores were obtained by a reaction between 4-(di­ethyl­amino)­benzaldehyde and the corresponding cyclo­alkanone. Mol­ecules of this series have three main fragments, i.e. a central acceptor (A) and two terminal donors (D1 and D2), and represent examples of the D1–π–A–π–D2 mol­ecular design.

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