The structures of the 1:1 hydrated proton-transfer compounds of isonipecotamide (piperidine-4-carboxamide) with oxalic acid, 4-carbamoylpiperidinium hydrogen oxalate dihydrate, C6H13N2O+·C2HO4−·2H2O, (I), and with adipic acid, bis(4-carbamoylpiperidinium) adipate dihydrate, 2C6H13N2O+·C6H8O42−·2H2O, (II), are three-dimensional hydrogen-bonded constructs involving several different types of enlarged water-bridged cyclic associations. In the structure of (I), the oxalate monoanions give head-to-tail carboxylic acid O—H...Ocarboxylhydrogen-bonding interactions, formingC(5) chain substructures which extend alonga. The isonipecotamide cations also give parallel chain substructures through amide N—H...O hydrogen bonds, the chains being linked acrossband downcby alternating water bridges involving both carboxyl and amide O-atom acceptors and amide and piperidinium N—H...Ocarboxylhydrogen bonds, generating cyclicR43(10) andR32(11) motifs. In the structure of (II), the asymmetric unit comprises a piperidinium cation, half an adipate dianion, which lies across a crystallographic inversion centre, and a solvent water molecule. In the crystal structure, the two inversion-related cations are interlinked through the two water molecules, which act as acceptors in dual amide N—H...Owaterhydrogen bonds, to give a cyclicR42(8) association which is conjoined with anR44(12) motif. Further N—H...Owater, water O—H...Oamideand piperidinium N—H...Ocarboxylhydrogen bonds give the overall three-dimensional structure. The structures reported here further demonstrate the utility of the isonipecotamide cation as a synthon for the generation of stable hydrogen-bonded structures. The presence of solvent water molecules in these structures is largely responsible for the non-occurrence of the common hydrogen-bonded amide–amide dimer, promoting instead various expanded cyclic hydrogen-bonding motifs.
Rigidly hydrogen-bonded water molecules facilitate proton transfer in photosystem II
