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prepared by cyclocondensation reactions between 6-amino-
pyrimidine-5-carbaldehydes and acetophenones, utilizing sol-
vent-free fusion reactions promoted by BF3–Et2O catalysis.
ISSN 0108-2701
Four 7-aryl-substituted pyrido[2,3-d]-
pyrimidine-2,4(1H,3H)-diones: similar
molecular structures but different
crystal structures
Jorge Trilleras,a Jairo Quiroga,a Justo Cobo,b Michael B.
Hursthousec and Christopher Glidewelld*
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Grupo de Investigacion de Compuestos Heterocıclicos, Departamento de Quımica,
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Universidad de Valle, AA 25360 Cali, Colombia, Departamento de Quımica
Inorganica y Organica, Universidad de Jaen, 23071 Jaen, Spain, cSchool of
Chemistry, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ, England,
and dSchool of Chemistry, University of St Andrews, Fife KY16 9ST, Scotland
Correspondence e-mail: cg@st-andrews.ac.uk
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Received 3 February 2009
Accepted 16 February 2009
Online 21 February 2009
Molecules of 1,3-dimethyl-7-(4-methylphenyl)pyrido[2,3-d]-
pyrimidine-2,4(1H,3H)-dione, C16H15N3O2, (I), are linked by
paired C—Hꢀ ꢀ ꢀO hydrogen bonds to form centrosymmetric
R22(10) dimers, which are linked into chains by a single
ꢀ–ꢀ stacking interaction. A single C—Hꢀ ꢀ ꢀO hydrogen bond
links the molecules of 7-(biphenyl-4-yl)-1,3-dimethylpyrido-
[2,3-d]pyrimidine-2,4(1H,3H)-dione, C21H17N3O2, (II), into
C(10) chains, which are weakly linked into sheets by a ꢀ–ꢀ
stacking interaction. In 7-(4-fluorophenyl)-3-methylpyrido-
[2,3-d]pyrimidine-2,4(1H,3H)-dione, C14H10FN3O2, (III), an
N—Hꢀ ꢀ ꢀO hydrogen bond links the molecules into C(6)
chains, which are linked into sheets by a ꢀ–ꢀ stacking
interaction. The molecules of 7-(4-methoxyphenyl)-3-methyl-
pyrido[2,3-d]pyrimidine-2,4(1H,3H)-dione, C15H13N3O3, (IV),
are also linked into C(6) chains by an N—Hꢀ ꢀ ꢀO hydrogen
bond, but here the chains are linked into sheets by a
combination of two independent C—Hꢀ ꢀ ꢀꢀ(arene) hydrogen
bonds.
While the molecular structures of the pair of compounds
1,3-dimethyl-7-(4-methylphenyl)pyrido[2,3-d]pyrimidine-2,4-
(1H,3H)-dione, (I) (Fig. 1), and 7-(1,10-biphenyl-4-yl)-1,3-di-
methylpyrido[2,3-d]pyrimidine-2,4(1H,3H)-dione, (II) (Fig. 2),
are broadly similar in constitution and very similar in
conformation, they exhibit significant differences in their
crystal structures, in particular in their space groups and in
their pattern of supramolecular aggregation. Similarly, the pair
of compounds 7-(4-fluorophenyl)-3-methylpyrido[2,3-d]pyri-
midine-2,4(1H,3H)-dione, (III) (Fig. 3), and 7-(4-methoxy
phenyl)-3-methylpyrido[2,3-d]pyrimidine-2,4(1H,3H)-dione,
(IV) (Fig. 4), which are closely related to (I) and (II), have
Comment
Pyrido[2,3-d]pyrimidine heterocycles (also known as 5-de-
azapteridines) have received considerable attention over the
past decade as a result of the wide range of biological activity
that they exhibit (Devi et al., 2003; Tu et al., 2008), including,
for example, bronchodilator, vasodilator, antiallergic, cardio-
tonic, antihypertensive or hepatoprotective activities, as well
as for their role in the treatment of proliferative diseases
(Devi et al., 2004). As part of a wide-ranging project on the
synthesis and characterization of fused pyrimidine systems
under solvent-free conditions, we report here the structures
of four examples of 7-arylpyrido[2,3-d]pyrimidine derivatives
Figure 1
The molecular structure of (I), showing the atom-labelling scheme.
Displacement ellipsoids are drawn at the 30% probability level.
o134 # 2009 International Union of Crystallography
doi:10.1107/S0108270109005514
Acta Cryst. (2009). C65, o134–o139