“…However, this description must be questioned on two grounds; firstly, the HÁ Á ÁBr distance in question, 2.93 Å , is not significantly shorter than the sum, 2.94 Å , of the van der Waals radii (Rowland & Taylor, 1996), and secondly, it has been convincingly demonstrated that Br atoms bonded to C atoms are extremely poor acceptors even from good hydrogen-bond donors, such as O-H and N-H, and correspondingly worse from a weak donor, such as C-H (Brammer et al, 2001;Thallapally & Nangia, 2001). (Thanigaimani et al, 2015), is also an isomer of compound (II) but with the locations of the aryl and naphthyl units interchanged. Compound (V) also crystallizes in the space group P1, with reduced cell repeat vectors also similar to those of compounds (II) and (V), and with the interaxial angles all greater than 90 , although (V) is not isostructural with (II).…”