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April 2025 issue

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Cover illustration: Tetraoxa[4]arenes, cyclic molecules comprising four phenylene units bridged by oxygen atoms, are notable examples of compound exhibiting polymorphism. In the present study, Kawasaki & Hori [(2025). Acta Cryst. E81 289–295] have focused their attention on a structural analogue of tetraoxa[4]arene in which the phenylene units are replaced by tetrafluorophenylene and triazine moieties. Two polymorphs, block-shaped (I) and plate-shaped (II), were obtained from a chloromethane solution. While polymorph I had been previously reported, polymorph II was newly identified and exhibited a doubled unit-cell volume with two independent molecular arrangements. The study sought to analyse intermolecular interactions, focusing on π-hole interactions and their role in crystal packing stability, with implications for molecular recognition and crystal engineering.

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The title coordination compound was synthesized upon complexation of propyl 4-{[1-(2-methyl-4-nitro­phen­yl)-1H-1,2,3-triazol-4-yl]meth­oxy}benzoate and copper(II) chloride at 323 K. It crystallizes as a centrosymmetric dimer, with one copper atom, two chlorine atoms and two propyl 4-{[1-(2-methyl-4-nitro­phen­yl)-1H-1,2,3-triazol-4-yl]meth­oxy}benzoate ligands in the asymmetric unit.

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The title platinum(II) complex exhibits a distorted square-planar geometry. Intra- and inter­molecular π-stacking inter­actions are observed between the phenanthroline and phosphine rings while hydrogen bonding is observed between the complex ion, nitrate counter-ions and solvent mol­ecules.

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The tricyclic ring system of the title compound departs from planarity in the region of the sp3 carbon atom. The three-dimensional packing involves four classical hydrogen bonds and one N⋯Cl halogen bond.

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The composition of the nitro-substituted compound 6-[4-(1-cyclo­hexyl-1H-tetra­zol-5-yl)but­oxy]-8-nitro-3,4-di­hydro­quinolin-2(1H)-one has been unequivocally established from single-crystal X-ray diffraction. The mol­ecular conformation and the role of the different inter­molecular inter­actions in the crystal packing has also been explored.

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Tetra­oxa[2]perfluoro­arene[2]triazine (C20H6F8N6O6), composed of two tetra­fluoro­phenyl­ene and two triazine moieties connected by four oxygen atoms, was crystallized via slow evaporation of a di­chloro­methane solution, yielding two polymorphs with block- and plate-shaped crystals.

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The title compound contains pyran and phenyl rings, with the pyran ring in a flattened-boat conformation. In the crystal, inter­molecular N—H⋯N hydrogen bonds link the mol­ecules into centrosymmetric dimers, forming R22(12) ring motifs, which are linked by N—H⋯O hydrogen bonds into a three-dimensional architecture. In addition to van der Waals inter­actions and N—H⋯N and N—H⋯O hydrogen bonds, halogen bonds, tetrel bonds and pnictogen bonds also play an important role in the cohesion of the crystal structure.

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The structure of a tris­(2-methyl-1H-imidazol-3-ium) di­hydrogenetrimesate mono­hydrogentrimesate2− compound was determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. The compound is mixture of protonated and deprotonated mol­ecules.

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The crystal structure is characterized by a three-dimensional hydrogen-bonding network. Chains formed through N—H⋯O contacts are linked by additional inter­molecular bonds to complete the structure.


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The structure consists of infinite zigzag polyphosphate chains, running along the c-axis direction, linked by Ni2+ ions and delimiting large tunnels in which the K+ ions are located. Ni2+ ions form slightly distorted NiO6 octa­hedra and the coordination numbers of the independent potassium cations are 8 and 10.

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The mol­ecular and crystal structures of 2-[(2,4-di­methyl­benz­yl)thio]­pyrimidine-4,6-di­amine were studied and Hirshfeld surfaces and fingerprint plots were generated to investigate the various inter­molecular inter­actions.

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The crystal structure of the amino acid Schiff base zinc(II) complex synthesized from salicyl­aldehyde, L-threonine and zinc(II) acetate is reported.

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The synthesis, mol­ecular X-ray structure and in silico EGFR and HER2 mol­ecular docking studies are reported for 4-hy­droxy-3,5-di­meth­oxy­benzaldehyde (6-chloro­pyridazin-3-yl)hydrazone hydrate, which constitutes a new pyridazine-based compound incorporating a syringaldehyde moiety by condensation of the hydrazine linker with the aldehyde function.

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The asymmetric unit of the title compound consists of two mol­ecules with nearly identical conformations. The angles between the cyanide group and the corresponding indene ring plane are 64.09 (16) and 64.72 (14)°.

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Decapeptide having a gramicidin S sequence forms a helix structure supported by a fluorine–H inter­action.

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The syntheses and crystal structures of a triazolium salt, 4-benzyl-1-ethyl-1,2,4-triazolium bromide, and the corresponding N-heterocyclic carbene complexes, (4-benzyl-1-ethyl-1,2,4-triazol-5-yl­idene)chlorido­[(1,2,5,6-η)-cyclo­octa-1,5-diene]rhodium(I), (4-benzyl-1-ethyl-1,2,4-triazol-5-yl­idene)[(1,2,5,6-η)-cyclo­octa-1,5-diene](tri­phenyl­phosphane)iridium(I) tetra­fluorido­borate and (4-benzyl-1-ethyl-1,2,4-triazol-5-yl­idene)[(1,2,5,6-η)-cyclo­octa-1,5-diene](tri­cyclo­hexyl­phosphane)iridium(I) tetra­fluorido­borate dicholoro­methane sesquisolvate, are presented. All structures exhibit non-classical hydrogen-bonding inter­actions with the most acidic hydrogen atoms in two of them playing critical roles in the orientations of structural units.

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The crystal structures of three salts of the C18H15S+ tri­phenyl­sulfonium ion are reported, namely, bis­(tri­phenyl­sulfonium) tetra­chloro­zinc(II), bis­(tri­phenyl­sulfonium) tetra­chloro­cadmium(II) and bis­(tri­phenyl­sulfonium) tetra­chloro­mercury(II) methanol monosolvate.

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Research communications are designed to help authors bring out the science behind their structure determinations. Authors are encouraged to report more than one structure in the same communication and also to include the results of investigations with other techniques. The Research communications format makes Acta E the natural home for structure determinations with interesting science to report.

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