Two polymorphs of bis(2-carbamoylguanidinium) fluorophosphonate dihydrate

Two polymorphs of bis(2-carbamoylguanidinium) fluorophosphonate dihydrate, 2C2H7N4O+·FO3P2−·2H2O, are presented. Polymorph (I), crystallizing in the space groupPnma, is slightly less densely packed than polymorph (II), which crystallizes inPbca. In (I), the fluorophosphonate anion is situated on a crystallographic mirror plane and the O atom of the water molecule is disordered over two positions, in contrast with its H atoms. The hydrogen-bond patterns in both polymorphs share similar features. There are O—H...O and N—H...O hydrogen bonds in both structures. The water molecules donate their H atoms to the O atoms of the fluorophosphonates exclusively. The water molecules and the fluorophosphonates participate in the formation ofR44(10) graph-set motifs. These motifs extend along theaaxis in each structure. The water molecules are also acceptors of either one [in (I) and (II)] or two [in (II)] N—H...O hydrogen bonds. The water molecules are significant building elements in the formation of a three-dimensional hydrogen-bond network in both structures. Despite these similarities, there are substantial differences between the hydrogen-bond networks of (I) and (II). The N—H...O and O—H...O hydrogen bonds in (I) are stronger and weaker, respectively, than those in (II). Moreover, in (I), the shortest N—H...O hydrogen bonds are shorter than the shortest O—H...O hydrogen bonds, which is an unusual feature. The properties of the hydrogen-bond network in (II) can be related to an unusually long P—O bond length for an unhydrogenated fluorophosphonate anion that is present in this structure. In both structures, the N—H...F interactions are far weaker than the N—H...O hydrogen bonds. It follows from the structure analysis that (II) seems to be thermodynamically more stable than (I).