1-(Methyl-α-d-gluco-pyran-osid-6-yl)-3-vinyl-imidazolium iodide di-methyl-formamide monosolvate.

The title solvated molecular salt, [MeGluVIm]I (MeGluVIm = 1-(methyl-α-d-gluco-pyran-osid-6-yl)-3-vinyl-imidazolium), or C 12 H 19 N 2 O 5 + ·I - ·C 3 H 7 NO, was synthesized from methyl-α-d-6-iodo-gluco-pyran-oside and vinyl-imidazole in DMF. It crystallizes through precipitation from ethyl acetate solution directly after the reaction procedure. The crystal structure consists of an iodide anion and a [MeGluVIm] cation. Furthermore, the crystal structure contains one mol-ecule of DMF, which accepts two O-H⋯H hydrogen bonds from the OH groups of the gluco-pyran-oside.