Chemical Communications 2005-08-21

Structural basis for bending of organic crystals.

C Malla Reddy, Ravi C Gundakaram, Srinivas Basavoju, Michael T Kirchner, K Anantha Padmanabhan, Gautam R Desiraju

Index: Chem. Commun. (Camb.) (31) , 3945-7, (2005)

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Abstract

Bending is observed in organic crystals when the packing is anisotropic in such a way that strong and weak interaction patterns occur in nearly perpendicular directions.