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The asymmetric unit of the title salt, C10H11N2+·C4H5O4−, consists of two independent 5-amino-6-methylquinolin-1-ium cations and two 3-carboxypropanoate anions. Both cations are protonated at the pyridine N atoms and are essentially planar, with maximum deviations of 0.026 (3) and 0.016 (2) Å. In the crystal, the cations and anions are linked via N—H...O and O—H...O hydrogen bonds, forming a layer parallel to the ab plane. In the layer, weak C—H...O hydrogen bonds and π–π stacking interactions, with centroid-to-centroid distances of 3.7283 (15) and 3.8467 (15) Å, are observed. The crystal structure also features weak C—H...O hydrogen bonds between the layers.