Among salts of amino acids there are compounds with the composition 2A..HX, which consist of dimeric A...A+ cations
with short symmetric or asymmetric hydrogen bonds between zwitter-ionic and protonated moieties. These species are
materials liable to undergo phase transitions or possess interesting nonlinear optical properties. Here, we report the
preparation of 20 new salts with dimeric cations from aqueous solutions, including compounds of glycine, betaine, β-
alanine, L-alanine, L-phenylalanine, L-threonine, L-valine, L-leucine and L-proline, with BF4-, ClO4-, Cl-, Br-, HSeO3-,
and HC2O4-; as anions. The prepared salts are characterized by IR and Raman spectroscopy. Some of them are grown in
form of good quality single crystals, which allowed the determination of their crystal structure.
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