organic compounds
Figure 4
A stereoview of part of the crystal structure of salt (I), showing the
formation of a hydrogen-bonded sheet parallel to (010). For the sake of
clarity, H atoms not involved in the motifs shown have been omitted
which are related by translation to form a C22(6) (Bernstein et
al., 1995) chain running parallel to the [100] direction (Fig. 3).
There are also two short intermolecular C—Hꢀ ꢀ ꢀO contacts
present in the structure of (I) (Table 2). One of these inter-
actions, having a C—Hꢀ ꢀ ꢀO angle of 153ꢁ, weakly links the
chains along [100] into a sheet parallel to (010) and built from
S(7) and R67(25) rings (Fig. 4). In the other such interaction,
which lies within the (010) sheet, the C—Hꢀ ꢀ ꢀO angle is only
131ꢁ, so that this contact is probably not structurally significant
(Wood et al., 2009). It is notable that the strong and nearly
linear O—Hꢀ ꢀ ꢀO and N—Hꢀ ꢀ ꢀO hydrogen bonds in the
structure of (I) all involve the negatively charged O atoms of
the carboxylate group, whereas the C—Hꢀ ꢀ ꢀO contacts
involve the formally neutral O32 atom of the carboxylic acid
unit.
Figure 5
Projections of the molecular structures in compound (II) along the Nꢀ ꢀ ꢀN
vectors, showing the molecular conformations for (a) a type 1 molecule
and (b) a type 2 molecule. For the sake of clarity, H atoms have all been
omitted. [Symmetry codes: (a) ꢃx + 1, y, ꢃz + 12; (b) ꢃx + 1, y, ꢃz + .]
Compound (II) crystallizes in the space group C2/c with two
independent molecules both lying across twofold rotation
axes. Comparison of the unit-cell dimensions at 298 K (Lu et
al., 2007) and at 120 K indicates that no phase change has
occurred between these two temperatures. The molecules of
(II) exhibit no internal symmetry other than the twofold
rotation axis and hence they are conformationally chiral,
although the space group accommodates equal numbers of the
two conformational enantiomers. There is thus considerable
flexibility available in the choice of the asymmetric unit, but
that selected here contains two independent molecules of the
same enantiomeric form, as indicated by the general similarity
of corresponding torsion angles (Table 3). On this basis, the
type 1 molecule containing atom C1 lies across the rotation
axis along (12, y, 14), while the type 2 molecule containing atom
3
2
ceptional, and the C—N bond lengths involving atoms C1 and
C2 are typical of their type [mean value (Allen et al., 1987)
˚
1.469 A]. Both of the N atoms in compound (II) are markedly
pyramidal, with the sum of the interbond angles being
332.4 (2)ꢁ at N1 and 330.4 (2)ꢁ at N2. Despite this, there are no
C—Hꢀ ꢀ ꢀN hydrogen bonds within the crystal structure of (II);
indeed, there are no direction-specific interactions of any type,
as both C—Hꢀ ꢀ ꢀꢀ(arene) hydrogen bonds and aromatic ꢀ–ꢀ
stacking interactions are also absent.
3
Experimental
C2 lies across the axis along (12, y, ).
4
For the synthesis of salt (I), a mixture of dibenzylamine (80 mg) and
an excess of maleic acid (161 mg, 2.5 equivalents) in ethyl acetate
(2 ml) was stirred at ambient temperature for 1 h. The resulting solid
product was collected by filtration, washed with cold ethyl acetate
(2 ꢄ 1 ml) and dried at ambient temperature to provide product (I) as
colourless crystals (yield 86%, m.p. 482 K). FT–IR (KBr): 3032,
2828, 2751, 2636, 1705 (C O), 1629 (C C), 1384, 1361, 1214, 1086
(C—O) cmꢃ1. Crystals suitable for single-crystal X-ray diffraction
were grown by slow evaporation, at ambient temperature and in air,
from a solution in ethyl acetate. For the synthesis of compound (II), a
mixture of dibenzylamine (201 mg, 2.0 mmol) and paraformaldehyde
(15 mg, 1.0 mmol) in acetonitrile (2 ml) was stirred at ambient
temperature for 3 h. The resulting solid product was collected by
In each molecule of (II), the arrangement of the benzyl
groups is probably dominated by a combination of steric
factors and the mutual repulsion of the lone pairs on the two N
atoms, which adopt an anticlinal conformation relative to the
Nꢀ ꢀ ꢀN direction (Fig. 5). The projections along the Nꢀ ꢀ ꢀN
vectors, together with the detailed comparison of the relevant
torsion angles (Table 3) confirm that there are sufficient
conformational differences between the two independent
molecules to preclude the possibility of any additional crys-
tallographic symmetry.
Despite the bulk of the dibenzylamino group, the interbond
angles (Table 3) at the central C1 and C2 atoms are unex-
C14H16N+ꢀC4H3O4 and C29H30N2
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