The short interplanar π-stacking separation observed in crystalline alkali hydrogen squarate salts is demonstrated to arise from electrostatic compression due to the alkali–squarate interactions and not from cohesive interactions between π systems of the squarate anions; the behaviour is generalised to π stacking within electrostatic environments.
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Braga et al. (1999) studied this question.