metal-organic compounds
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In the asymmetric unit of the title salt, (C5H12NO)6[PMo12O40]2·5C5H11NO, there are two independent α-Keggin-type [PMo12O40]3− polyoxidoanions, which show characteristic features with respect to bond lengths and angles. One of the [CH3CH2C(=OH)N(CH3)2]+ cations is hydrogen bonded to the neighboring polyoxidoanion through a C=O—HObridge hydrogen bond. The organic molecules and the remaining organic cations form [(C5H11NO)2H]+ molecule–cation pairs, two of which lie about inversion centers, through O—HO hydrogen bonds.