Majid Hussain, Antonio Bauzá, Antonio Frontera, Kong Mun Lo and Muhammad Moazzam Naseer
CrystEngComm, 2018,20, 150-154
DOI:
10.1039/C7CE01697B,
Communication
A supramolecular motif listed as ‘carbon bonded’ or ‘hydrogen bonded’ may have the character of both. We highlight the hybrid character of the non-covalent interaction in a bis-Schiff base of N-allyl isatin by theoretical studies, the solid state structure of which is mainly driven by a non-covalent carbon/hydrogen bonded self-complementary dimeric {⋯C–N–C![[double bond, length as m-dash]](https://www.rsc.org/images/entities/char_e001.gif)
O/H–C–N–CO}2 synthon.
