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