Jagarlapudi A. R. P. Sarma, Frank H. Allen, Vanessa J. Hoy, Judith A. K. Howard, Ram Thaimattam, Kumar Biradha and Gautam R. Desiraju
The crystal structure of 4-iodo-4′-nitrobiphenyl has been determined with packing calculations and the presence of polar and parallel iodo···nitro supramolecular synthons leads to non-centrosymmetry and measurable SHG activity