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DOI: 10.1039/A900392D (Paper) Reference Section for: Chem. Commun., 1999, 511-512

Dis-assembling lithium amide ladder structures: new insight through the structure of [{[PhCH2N(H)Li]2·thf}∞], a polymer of (NLi)2 planar rings connected by thf-bridged (NLi)2 butterfly junctions

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William Clegg, Stephen T. Liddle, Robert E. Mulvey and Alan Robertson

Abstract

One can visualise how the novel hemi-solvated polymeric ladder structure of the title compound would dis-assemble at its long, weak cisoid-(NLi)2 butterfly junctions on further solvation, to release transoid-(NLi)2 planar dimeric rings, the expected product of full solvation.

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