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3538205 
Journal Article 
Solvent inclusion in the crystal structure of bis-[(adamantan-1-yl)methanaminium chloride] 1,4-dioxane hemisolvate monohydrate explained using the computed crystal energy landscape 
Mohamed, S 
2016 
Acta Crystallographica Section E-Crystallographic Communications
ISSN: 2056-9890 
72 
Pt 9 
1348-1352 
English 
27920932 
Repeated attempts to crystallize 1-adamantane-methyl-amine hydro-chloride as an anhydrate failed but the salt was successfully crystallized as a solvate (2C11H20N(+)·2Cl(-)·0.5C4H8O2·H2O), with water and 1,4-dioxane playing a structural role in the crystal and engaging in hydrogen-bonding inter-actions with the cation and anion. Computational crystal-structure prediction was used to rationalize the solvent-inclusion behaviour of this salt by computing the solvent-accessible voids in the predicted low-energy structures for the anhydrate: the global lattice-energy minimum structure, which has the same packing of the ions as the solvate, has solvent-accessible voids that account for 3.71% of the total unit-cell volume and is 6 kJ mol(-1) more stable than the next most stable predicted structure.