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2. Experimental
3. Results and discussion
2.1. Materials and physical measurements
3.1. Single crystal structure of (HAAP+ꢀHTBAꢁ)
4-Aminoantipyrine (Merck) and 2-mercaptobenzoic acid (Sig-
ma–Aldrich) were of reagent grade and used as such. Microanalysis
was carried out using a Vario EL III elemental analyzer. Infra red
spectrum was recorded on a Perkin Elmer FT-IR instrument as
KBr pellet in the range 4000–400 cmꢁ1. The 1H NMR and 13C
NMR were recorded using Bruker DRX-500 MHz with DMSO as sol-
vent. DART-MS was recorded on a Jeol-AccuToF JMS-T100LC mass
spectrometer having a DART (Direct Analysis in Real time) source.
The thermal studies were recorded on a Mettler TG-50 thermobal-
ance with a heating rate of 20 °C/min. in nitrogen atmosphere. The
single crystal X-ray data-collection of the compound was carried
out using Bruker Axs kappa apex 2 CCD diffractometer.
In the present study, during the 1:2 stoichiometric reaction of
4-aminoantipyrine with 2-mercaptobenzoic acid, the acid is first
oxidized to 2,20-dithiobis(benzoic acid), (H2TBA) [12], which subse-
quently undergoes proton transfer to 4-aminoantipyrine to form
an ion-pair compound, (HAAP+ꢀHTBAꢁ). The flexible conformation
and variable degree of deprotonation of the dibasic acid (H2TBA)
is known to have formed cocrystals, with few bases, in which the
acid–base pairs are held together by charge assisted hydrogen
bonds [13].
The compound, (HAAP+ꢀHTBAꢁ), crystallizes in the space group
P-1. The crystal structure reveals the formation of a 1:1 proton
transfer compound, held together by a hydrogen bond. Here proton
transfer takes place from the carboxyl group at C1 of the dibasic
acid, (H2TBA) to the amino group of the base, (AAP). The asymmet-
ric unit of the compound thus contains 4-ammonium antipyrine,
(HAAP+) as the cation and monocarboxylate of 2,20-dithiobis(ben-
zoic acid), (HTBAꢁ) as the anion (Fig. 1). This is a redetermination
of a similar crystalline structure isolated during the direct reaction
of 4-aminoantipyrine with 2,20-dithiobis(benzoic acid) [14].
In the crystal of (HAAP+ꢀHTBAꢁ) obtained according to Scheme 1,
the pyrazolone ring and phenyl ring are in gauche orientation
along the N1AC15 bond. This is reflected from the dihedral angles
C23/N1/C15/C20 = ꢁ66.0(3)° and C16/C15/N1/N2 = ꢁ65.6(3)°. Pro-
tonation of the amino group usually leads to the elongation of the
CAN bond [15]. This is found true in the case of 4-ammonium anti-
pyrine cation also. The CAN distance [C22AN3 = 1.4270(19) Å] is
longer than the CAN distance of neutral AAP (1.3960 Å) [10,16].
This lengthening is observed when the amine N atom of AAP ac-
cepts a H atom from the carboxyl group of acid. All other bond
length and bond angle values (Table 2) are consistent with those
of other reported structure of AAP derivatives.
The anion moiety of the ion-pair is also non-planar. The S1AS2
bond length is 2.0502(6) Å and agrees with the literature value of
other disulfides [17]. The dihedral angle value C2/S1/S2/
C9 = 83.03(8)° shows that the aryl substituents on the two sulfur
atoms are in an approximate perpendicular disposition with re-
spect to each other [12]. The COOH and COOA groups are essen-
tially coplanar with the respective aromatic ring. The benzene
ring with COOH group is tilted more from the plane defined by
the S1AS2 axis and the respective ring C atoms [S1/S2/C9/
C10 = ꢁ16.12(15)°] than the other ring with COOA group [S1/S2/
C2/C3 = ꢁ11.23(15)°]
2.2. Synthetic procedure
Refluxing 4-aminoantipyrine (0.203 g, 1 mmol) and 2-mercapto
benzoic acid (0.308 g, 2 mmol) in 50% ethanol–water mixture for
15 h, followed by partial room temperature evaporation of the sol-
vent, resulted in the separation of brown colored blocks of the
compound, (HAAP+ꢀHTBAꢁ) with m.p. 224–225 °C (Scheme 1).
The elemental analysis data for the compound, Found(Calcd):
C,58.91(58.92); H,4.5(4.55); N,08.15(08.25); S,12.61(12.58) agrees
with the empirical formula C25 H23 N3 O5 S2.
2.3. Crystal structure determination of (HAAP+ꢀHTBAꢁ)
Single crystal suitable for diffraction was obtained by slow
evaporation of a solution of the compound in ethanol–water mix-
ture. The brown crystal of the compound having appropriate
dimensions of 0.30 mm ꢂ 0.20 mm ꢂ 0.20 mm was mounted on a
fine-focus sealed tube for X-ray crystallographic study. A Bruker
Axs-kappa apex 2 CCD diffractometer equipped with a graphite
monochromated Mo K
measurement of data.
a (k = 0.71073) radiation was used for the
The structure was solved by direct methods and refined by full
matrix least squares on F2 (SHELXL 97) program package [11].
Molecular graphics employed include ORTEP 3 and Mercury 2.3.
The hydrogen-atoms potentially involved in hydrogen bonding
interactions were located from difference electron density maps.
The positions of all H atoms were identified from a difference elec-
tron density peak and were fixed geometrically during refinement.
The title compound crystallizes in triclinic P-1 with
There are two short non-bonded Sꢀ ꢀ ꢀO contacts also
[S1ꢀ ꢀ ꢀO1 = 2.647 Å and S2ꢀ ꢀ ꢀO3 = 2.665 Å] between sulfur atoms
of disulphide linkage and oxygen atoms of COOH and COOA
groups. The proton transfer from the carboxyl group at C1 to the
neighboring amino group of pyrazolone moiety makes the CAC
bond joining the COOA group [C1AC7 = 1.493(2) Å ] to be slightly
longer than that joining the COOH group [C8AC14 = 1.472(2) Å].
a = 9.6289(2) Å,
b = 10.2473(2) Å,
c = 13.7889(5) Å
and
V = 1203.12(6) A3.
The crystallographic XRD data is given in Table 1. Full Crystallo-
graphic data (cif file) relating to the crystal structure have been
deposited with the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Center as
CCDC 764774.
Scheme 1.