A survey of the Cambridge Structural Database reveals hundreds of C–H···N contacts which are significantly shorter (<2.45 Å) than the sum of the van der Waals radii (2.75 Å), effectively refuting recent claims to the contrary and supporting the description of this interaction as a hydrogen bond.
M. Mascal, Chem. Commun., 1998, 303 DOI: 10.1039/A707702E
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