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Chemical Communications

Comment on “Trimorphs of 4-bromophenyl 4-bromobenzoate. Elastic, brittle, plastic” by S. Saha and G. R. Desiraju, Chem. Commun., 2018, 54, 6348†

Jacob J. Whittaker, ORCID logo ab   Aidan J. Brock,ac   Arnaud Grosjean,ad   Michael C. Pfrunder,ac   John C. McMurtrie ORCID logo *c  and  Jack K. Clegg ORCID logo *a  

* Corresponding authors

a School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia
E-mail: j.clegg@uq.edu.au

b University of Groningen, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, Nijenborgh 4, Groningen, The Netherlands

c School of Chemistry, Physics and Mechanical Engineering, Queensland University of Technology, GPO Box 2434, Brisbane, Queensland 4001, Australia
E-mail: j.mcmurtrie@qut.edu.au

d National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Hsinchu 30076, Taiwan, Republic of China

Abstract

A re-refinement of the published but chemically implausible, crystal structure of “Form III” of 4-bromophenyl 4-bromobenzoate shows that it is not a polymorph, but instead a co-crystal containing both 4-bromophenyl 4-bromobenzoate (≈25%) and likely 4-bromophenyl 4-nitrobenzoate (≈75%).

Graphical abstract: Comment on “Trimorphs of 4-bromophenyl 4-bromobenzoate. Elastic, brittle, plastic” by S. Saha and G. R. Desiraju, Chem. Commun., 2018, 54, 6348

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/D0CC07668F
Article type
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Submitted
23 Nov 2020
Accepted
01 Apr 2021
First published
19 Apr 2021

Chem. Commun., 2021,57, 4974-4975

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Comment on “Trimorphs of 4-bromophenyl 4-bromobenzoate. Elastic, brittle, plastic” by S. Saha and G. R. Desiraju, Chem. Commun., 2018, 54, 6348

J. J. Whittaker, A. J. Brock, A. Grosjean, M. C. Pfrunder, J. C. McMurtrie and J. K. Clegg, Chem. Commun., 2021, 57, 4974 DOI: 10.1039/D0CC07668F

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