organic compounds
Figure 2
The independent components of (II), showing the atom-labelling scheme
and the hydrogen bonds (dashed lines) within the selected asymmetric
unit. Displacement ellipsoids are drawn at the 30% probability level and
H atoms are shown as small spheres of arbitrary radii.
Figure 1
The independent components of (I), showing the atom-labelling scheme
and the hydrogen bonds (dashed lines) within the selected asymmetric
unit. Displacement ellipsoids are drawn at the 30% probability level and
H atoms are shown as small spheres of arbitrary radii.
aryl ring plane, and the C—C—N—H torsion angles (Table 1)
indicate that this component has approximate mirror
symmetry, with the mirror normal to the ring plane and
passing through the mid-points of the C21—C22 and C24—
C25 bonds. By contrast, in pure benzene-1,2-diamine
[Cambridge Structural Database (Allen, 2002) refcode
BAGFIY; Stalhandske, 1981], where again the amino groups
are pyramidal with angle sums at the N atoms of 341 and 335ꢀ,
the H atoms of the two amino groups lie on opposite sides of
the ring plane, so that the molecule has approximate twofold
rotation symmetry, with the axis passing through the mid-
points of the bonds corresponding to C21—C22 and C24—C25
in (II).
angles (Cremer & Pople, 1975) of ꢀ = 81.7 (9)ꢀ and ’ =
221.6 (10)ꢀ. The idealized ring-puckering angles for a twist-
boat form are ꢀ = 90ꢀ and ’ = (60k + 30)ꢀ, where k represents
an integer. The seven-membered rings adopt very similar
boat-type conformations in which the ring atoms C5, N6, N11
and C11a are essentially coplanar, with atoms C4a, C6a and
C10a all displaced to the same side of the plane defined by
atoms C5/N6/N11/C11a.
The pattern of the bond distances (Table 1) in the fused
tricyclic cores are very similar for (I) and (II), and a number of
general comments can be made. Firstly, the bond distances in
the C6a/C7–C10/C10a carbocyclic rings span only very small
In addition to the three hydrogen bonds within the selected
asymmetric unit of (I), the crystal structure of (I) contains
three further hydrogen bonds, one each of the N—HÁ Á ÁN, O—
HÁ Á ÁCl and N—HÁ Á ÁCl types, linking the three-component
aggregates comprising the asymmetric units to form complex
sheets. The formation of the sheets is most simply analysed in
terms of two one-dimensional substructures. The first sub-
structure in (I) is a chain of edge-fused rings running parallel
to the [100] direction. Pairs of symmetry-related N—HÁ Á ÁN
hydrogen bonds link pairs of cations related by inversion, via a
centrosymmetric R22(8) motif, while O—HÁ Á ÁCl hydrogen
bonds link pairs of water molecules and pairs of chloride ions
in a centrosymmetric R24(8) motif. Within the chain of rings,
the R22(8) rings are centred at (n + 21, 21, 12), where n represents an
˚
ranges, ca 0.015 A, indicating the occurrence of unperturbed
benzenoid delocalization within this ring in both compounds.
Secondly, the bond distances in the pyrimidine rings are
typical of their types and again are consistent with aromatic-
type delocalization in these rings. Thirdly, in the seven-
membered rings, there is not even approximate equivalence
between the distances in the two halves of the ring (defined by
the local pseudo-mirror through atom C4a and the mid-point
of the C6a—C10a bond), as expected for a simple benzodia-
zepinium cation and, in particular, there are some marked
differences in the C—N distances. Thus, the C5—N6 bond is
markedly shorter than the N6—C6a bond in both compounds,
consistent with C5—N6 being a localized double bond. Hence,
it may be concluded that there is no electronic delocalization
between the fused rings, nor around the periphery, so that the
outer rings both behave as closed 6ꢁ systems, while the central
ring contains a localized double bond.
1
1
integer, and the R24(8) rings are centred at (n, , ), where n
2
2
again represents an integer, and these two centrosymmetric
motifs are linked by the R23(10) ring within the asymmetric
unit, giving a continuous chain of edge-fused rings parallel to
[100] (Fig. 3). In the second substructure in (I), atom N6 in the
cation at (x, y, z) acts as hydrogen-bond donor to the chloride
In the benzene-1,2-diamine component of (II), the N atoms
are both markedly pyramidal, with angle sums at N21 and N22
of 340.1 and 336.1ꢀ, respectively, and the C—N distances in
this component (Table 1) are typical of those in aryl–NH2
fragments containing pyramidal N atoms (Allen et al., 1987).
All of the amino-group H atoms lie on the same side of the
1
1
ion at (32 À x, À + y, À z), so linking the three-component
2
2
1
4
aggregates related by the 21 screw axis along (34, y, ) into a
C32(9)C21(10)[R23(10)] chain of rings running parallel to the
[010] direction (Fig. 4). The combination of [100] and [010]
C16H19N6 ÁClÀÁH2O and C19H19N6 ÁClÀÁC6H8N2 o155
+
+
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Acta Cryst. (2010). C66, o154–o158
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