Pimelic acid-urea (1/2)

Acta Crystallogr Sect E Struct Rep Online. 2011 Jul 1;67(Pt 7):o1795. doi: 10.1107/S1600536811023439. Epub 2011 Jun 25.

Abstract

The asymmetric unit, 2CH(4)N(2)O·C(7)H(12)O(4), of the title cocrystal contains one urea mol-ecule and a half-mol-ecule of pimelic acid; the latter, together with a second urea mol-ecule, are completed by symmetry, with the central atom of the whole pimelic acid moiety placed on a twofold crystallographic axis. The crystal packing is stabilized by O-H⋯O and N-H⋯O hydrogen-bond, generating a chain along [10[Formula: see text]]. Additionally, the chains are assembled into a three-dimensional framework via weak N-H⋯O inter-chain inter-actions.