3,3'-Diethyl-1,1'-(1,4-phenyl-ene-dimethyl-ene)diimidazol-3-ium bis-(hexa-fluoro-phosphate)

Acta Crystallogr Sect E Struct Rep Online. 2012 Jul 1;68(Pt 7):o2280. doi: 10.1107/S1600536812028966. Epub 2012 Jun 30.

Abstract

In the title mol-ecular salt, C(18)H(24)N(4) (2+)·2PF(6) (-), the complete dication is generated by a crystallographic inversion centre. The central benzene ring makes a dihedral angle of 77.19 (9)° with each of the imidazole rings. In the crystal, C-H⋯F inter-actions link the cations and anions into layers lying parallel to the bc plane. The hexa-fluoro-phosphate anion is disordered over two sets of sites in a 0.520 (11):0.480 (11) ratio.