STRONGLY ALKALINE SOLUTIONS ninhydrin (1,2,3 indantrione hy) combines with guanidine, monosubstituted guanidines, and disubstituted guanidines to form highly fluorescent addition ucts (1). This reaction has been used as the basis for a simple, itive fluorimetric method for the determination of creatine in m, blood, and urine. he most widely used methods for determining creatine are based n the ...

In the title molecular salt, C(24)H(24)N(5) (+)·C(6)H(2)N(3)O(7) (-), the dihedral angle between the benzimidazole rings of the cation is 5.041 (2)°. In the anion, the three nitro groups make dihedral angles of 2.468 (3), 12.795 (3) and 24.958 (4)° with respect to the central ring. In the crystal, weak aromatic π-π stacking [centroid-centroid distance = 3.599 (15) Å] consolidates the packing. I...

Two N4-type Schiff base ligands named N,N'-bis(2-pyridylmethylidene)-1,2-diiminoethane (L1) and N,N'-bis(2-pyridylmethylidene)-1,3-diiminopropane (L2) have been synthesized by the reaction of pyridine-2-carbaldehyde with ethylenediamine and propylenediamine, respectively. The binding abilities of L1 and L2 in dichloromethane towards Cu<...

In the crystal structure of the title compound, C(23)H(31)N(3)O(2+)·2C(6)H(2)N(3)O(7) (-), {systematic name: 1-[3-(5H-dibenz[b,f]azepin-5-yl)prop-yl]-4-(2-hy-droxy-eth-yl)piperazine-1,4-diium bis-(2,4,6-trinitro-phrenolate)} the piperazine group in the opipramol dication is protonated at both N atoms. Each picrate anion inter-acts with the protonated N atom in the cation through a bifurcated N-...

In the title compound, C(4)H(12)N(2) (2+)·2C(6)H(2)N(3)O(7) (-)·C(4)H(10)N(2), the piperazine-1,4-diium cations and piperazine mol-ecules lie on crystallographic inversion centres. In the crystal structure, inter-molecular N-H⋯O and N-H⋯N hydrogen bonds link the components to form two-dimensional layers parallel to the (001) plane. These layers are, in turn, connected by weak inter-molecular C-...