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DOI: 10.1039/A706615E (Paper) Reference Section for: Chem. Commun., 1998, 89-90

Regioselective solvation in a polymeric lithium amide: remarkable twisted ladder structure of [{[PhCH2N(H)Li]2·H2NCH2Ph}∞]

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Alan R. Kennedy, Robert E. Mulvey and Alan Robertson

Abstract

The hemi-benzylamine complex of lithium benzylamide exists in the crystal as an infinite, twisted-ladder structure of fused (NLi)2 rings; curiously, one edge of the ladder is solvated by benzylamine molecules, while the other is solvent-free.

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