“…P1, with fairly similar reduced cell repeat vectors, in (II), the inter-axial angles are all greater than 90 , whereas those in (IV) are all less than 90 , so that these compounds cannot be even approximately isostructural. The supramolecular assembly of (IV) was described (Moorthi et al, 2007) as comprising chains built from C-HÁ Á ÁBr hydrogen bonds. 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).…”