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

Kennedy, Alan R. and Mulvey, Robert E. and Robertson, Alan (1998) Regioselective solvation in a polymeric lithium amide : remarkable twisted ladder structure of [{[PhCH2N(H)Li]2•H2NCH2Ph}∞]. Chemical Communications, 1998 (1). pp. 89-90. ISSN 1359-7345 (https://doi.org/10.1039/A706615E)

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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.