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Science 9 July 1965:
Vol. 149. no. 3680, pp. 178 - 179
DOI: 10.1126/science.149.3680.178
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Hexamethylenetetramine Hexahydrate: A New Type of Clathrate Hydrate

G. A. Jeffrey 1 and T. C. W. Mak 1

1 Crystallography Laboratory, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213

Hexamethylenetetramine hexahydrate has a three-dimensional framework structure of hydrogen-bonded water molecules. Each hexamethylenetetramine molecule is located in a cavity within this framework but is linked to the water structure by hydrogen-bonds through three of its four nitrogen atoms.

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