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THE nature of the molecular interaction in the formation of crystalline quinhydrones has been discussed previously by Anderson1. By comparison of preliminary crystallographic data for a number of quinhydrones, he came to the conclusion that the molecules are held together by the interaction of polar groups and polarizable aromatic substances, and that hydrogen-bond formation is not an essential structural feature, though it is not necessarily excluded. We have now been able to confirm these conclusions by a detailed structure determination of phenoquinone (which will be reported in full elsewhere), and by comparison with further preliminary data for quinhydrone and other molecular compounds of this type.
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Anderson, J. S., Nature, 140, 583 (1937).
Powell, H. M., Huse, G., and Cooke, P. W., J. Chem. Soc., 153 (1943).
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WALLWORK, S., HARDING, T. Molecular Compounds of the Quinhydrone Type. Nature 171, 40–41 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/171040b0
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