organic compounds
Acta Crystallographica Section C
Crystal Structure
Communications
Comment
In connection with our wider study of new synthetic routes to
fused pyrazole derivatives having potential applications in
fields such as drug precursors, pesticides and new materials
(Elguero, 1984, 1996), we report here the structures of eight
substituted pyrazolo[3,4-d]oxazines. These derivatives have
been prepared following a synthetic sequence based on the
condensation of a substituted 5-aminopyrazole with the
appropriate aldehyde to provide (E)-3-tert-butyl-5-arylidene-
amino-1-phenyl-1H-pyrazole derivatives, followed by re-
duction of these intermediates to the corresponding 5-aryl-
methylamino-3-tert-butyl-1-phenyl-1H-pyrazoles (Castillo et
al., 2009), and finally reaction with formaldehyde under acid
catalysis.
ISSN 0108-2701
Eight 7-benzyl-3-tert-butyl-1-phenyl-
pyrazolo[3,4-d]oxazines, encompassing
structures containing no intermolecular
hydrogen bonds, and hydrogen-bonded
structures in one, two or three
dimensions
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Juan C. Castillo, Rodrigo Abonıa, Justo Cobo and
Christopher Glidewellc*
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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, and cSchool of
Chemistry, University of St Andrews, Fife KY16 9ST, Scotland
Correspondence e-mail: cg@st-andrews.ac.uk
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Received 6 July 2009
Accepted 16 July 2009
Online 30 July 2009
7-Benzyl-3-tert-butyl-1-phenyl-6,7-dihydro-1H,4H-pyrazolo-
[3,4-d][1,3]oxazine, C22H25N3O, (I), and 3-tert-butyl-7-(4-
methylbenzyl)-1-phenyl-6,7-dihydro-1H,4H-pyrazolo[3,4-d]-
[1,3]oxazine, C23H27N3O, (II), are isomorphous in the space
group P21, and molecules are linked into chains by C—Hꢀ ꢀ ꢀO
hydrogen bonds. In each of 3-tert-butyl-7-(4-methoxybenzyl)-
1-phenyl-6,7-dihydro-1H,4H-pyrazolo[3,4-d][1,3]oxazine, C23-
H27N3O2, (III), which has cell dimensions rather similar to
those of (I) and (II), also in P21, and 3-tert-butyl-1-phenyl-7-
[4-(trifluoromethyl)benzyl]-6,7-dihydro-1H,4H-pyrazolo[3,4-d]-
[1,3]oxazine, C23H24F3N3O, (IV), there are no direction-
specific interactions between the molecules. In 3-tert-butyl-7-
(4-nitrobenzyl)-1-phenyl-6,7-dihydro-1H,4H-pyrazolo[3,4-d]-
[1,3]oxazine, C22H24N4O3, (V), a combination of C—Hꢀ ꢀ ꢀO
and C—Hꢀ ꢀ ꢀN hydrogen bonds links the molecules into
complex sheets. There are no direction-specific interactions
between the molecules of 3-tert-butyl-7-(2,3-dimethoxybenz-
yl)-1-phenyl-6,7-dihydro-1H,4H-pyrazolo[3,4-d][1,3]oxazine,
C24H29N3O3, (VI), but a three-dimensional framework
is formed in 3-tert-butyl-7-(3,4-methylenedioxybenzyl)-1-
phenyl-6,7-dihydro-1H,4H-pyrazolo[3,4-d][1,3]oxazine, C23-
H25N3O3, (VII), by a combination of C—Hꢀ ꢀ ꢀO, C—Hꢀ ꢀ ꢀN
and C—Hꢀ ꢀ ꢀꢀ(arene) hydrogen bonds, while a combination
of C—Hꢀ ꢀ ꢀO and C—Hꢀ ꢀ ꢀꢀ(arene) hydrogen bonds links the
molecules of 3-tert-butyl-1-phenyl-7-(3,4,5-trimethoxybenzyl)-
6,7-dihydro-1H,4H-pyrazolo[3,4-d][1,3]oxazine, C25H31N3O4,
(VIII), into complex sheets. In each compound, the oxazine
ring adopts a half-chair conformation, while the orientations
of the pendent phenyl and tert-butyl substituents relative to
the pyrazolo[3,4-d]oxazine unit are all very similar.
Thus, we now report the structures of 7-benzyl-3-tert-butyl-
1-phenyl-6,7-dihydro-1H,4H-pyrazolo[3,4-d][1,3]oxazine, (I),
and seven derivatives, (II)–(VIII) (see scheme and Figs. 1 and
2), bearing a range of simple substituents in the aromatic ring
of the benzyl unit. Compounds (I) and (II) are isomorphous in
the space group P21. While compound (III) also crystallizes in
P21 with cell dimensions and atomic coordinates similar to
those in (I) and (II), it cannot be regarded as either isomor-
phous or isostructural with (I) and (II). Thus, while the unit-
cell vectors a and b both differ by less than 0.8% between
compounds (I) and (II), the corresponding difference between
(II) and (III) are both >2%; similarly, for the unit-cell vector c,
the values for (I) and (II) differ by ca 1.3%, while those for
(II) and (III) differ by ca 3.5%. Corresponding differences are
Acta Cryst. (2009). C65, o423–o430
doi:10.1107/S0108270109028017
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