A library of five phthalonitriles, dimeric or trimeric, all connected by an aromatic spacer (catechol, resorcinol, hydroquinone, phloroglucinol and catechol with two tert-butyl moieties), was selected to be comparatively studied from a structural point of view. Hirshfeld surface analysis and DFT calculations were performed as well.
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