“…The ethyl group may be disordered at room temperature, but it was impossible to resolve separate positions for C6. The position of C6 is different from the corresponding positions of this atom in dialkyldimethylammonium bromides (Taga, Machida, Kimura, Hayashi, Umemura & Takenaka, 1986Taga, Miwa, Machida, Kimura, Hayashi, Umemura & Takenaka, 1990), in N-alkyl-N,N-dimethyl-3-(heptamethyltrisilox-an-3-yl)-l-propanaminium bromide (Ramm, Schulz, Sonnek & Schmaucks, 1990) and in 1,3,3,5,5,5 -heptamethyltrisiloxan-1 -yl)-1-propanaminium bromide (Rudert & Schmaucks, 1994a). The title compound has a C3--N4--C5---C6 torsion angle of 178.0(4) ° , whereas the above cited compounds have corresponding torsion angles between 50.2 and 57.…”