Abstract
Crystal structures and thermal behaviors of 4-amino-3,5-dihalogenobenzoic acid (AXBA: X = Cl and I) were studied by single-crystal X-ray diffractometry and differential scanning calorimetry. It was found that all the crystal structures of AClBA and AIBA as well as ABrBA at room temperature belong to the same space group with two crystallographically distinguishable dimer units. The dimer was located in a highly symmetric circumstance; for example, its C═O and C–O bonds were indistinguishable due to the presence of 2-fold rotational and mirror symmetry elements so that two hydrogen bonds should be equivalent within each dimer. Such symmetric dimer structures are very rare among carboxylic acid crystals. Stabilization of such a symmetric dimer structure is attributed probably to notably strong and angular-dependent interdimer interactions: halogen bonds and NH···O hydrogen bonds. The strength of the halogen bond, among different halogens, was in the order of I > Br > Cl from the interhalogen-atomic length a...
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