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Hydrogen bonds are also of versatile importance in fields of
Synthesis of ethyl 3,5-dimethyl-4-(1-(2-tosylhydrazono)ethyl)-1H-
pyrrole-2-carboxylate (EDTEPC)
chemistry and bio-chemistry, which governs chemical reactions,
supramolecular structures, molecular assemblies and life pro-
cesses. The quantum chemical calculation is powerful approach
for study of different aspects of compounds [25,26].
The solution of ethyl 4-acetyl-3,5-dimetyl-1H-pyrrole-2-car-
boxylate [26] (0.200 g, 0.9564 mmol) in 20 ml methanol was added
dropwise to a stirred solution of para-toluene sulphonyl-hydrazide
(0.1779 g, 0.9564 mmol) dissolved in 20 ml methanol. Two drops
of polyphosphoric acid were added as a catalyst. Reaction mixture
was refluxed for 36 h. A white color precipitate appeared. The pre-
cipitate was filtered off, washed with methanol and dried in air.
Yield: 65% Color: white, m.p. 210 °C; Anal. calcd. for C17H21N3O4S:
C 56.18%, H 5.82%, N 11.56%, obs.: C 56.02%, H 5.72%, N 11.44%. MS
(m/z): calcd.363.43, obs.: 364 [M+H]+.
In view of various significance of Pyrrole sulfonylhydrazone,
ethyl
3,5-dimethyl-4-(1-(2-tosylhydrazono)ethyl)-1H-pyrrole-
2-carboxylate (EDTEPC) has been synthesized. In this paper we
present the structural, spectral and quantum chemical study of
both PT and EDTEPC. The present investigation reveals the detailed
spectroscopic nature of PT and EDTEPC and contributes to the
understanding of the FT-IR spectra that these compounds contain
hydrogen bonding. With the help of Bader’s theory of ‘‘Atoms in
molecules’’ (AIM) nature and strength of bonding have been
revealed [27]. The theory of AIM efficiently describes H-bonding
and its concept without border. Information about the potential
energy distribution (PED) over the internal coordinates, conforma-
tions of the molecule together with complete analysis of geometry
and chemical reactivity help in understanding the structural and
spectral characteristics, have been studied. In particular, the inter-
est in these compound provides opportunity for synthesis of new
heterocyclic compounds, metal and organometallic complexes that
may have considerable pharmacological activities and material
applications. Therefore, the PT and EDTEPC was synthesized and
characterized. In this paper we report the synthesis, detailed
molecular structure, spectroscopic analysis and chemical reactivity
of PT and EDTEPC using experimental and quantum chemical
calculations.
Results and discussion
Molecular structures, dimerization and Quantum Theory of Atoms in
Molecules (QTAIM) analysis
Scheme 1 shows the formation of PT and EDTEPC compound.
Selected optimized geometrical parameters of PT and EDTEPC, cal-
culated at B3LYP/6-31G(d,p) are listed in Supplementary Table S1a
and Table S1b. The optimized geometries of PT and EDTEPC are
shown in Fig. 1. The studied molecules possess C1 symmetry. In
both of the studied compounds tosylhydrazonomethyl group in
PT and EDTEPC are away from the plain by N26AN1AS3AC6,
N14AN15AS16AC19 torsion angle of 59.93°, 77.55° respectively.
The conformation of the NANASAO linkage is anti, with torsion
angles of 169.21°, ꢂ37.77°, which giving a folded appearance in
both PT and EDTEPC molecules, respectively. The asymmetry of
NAC bonds in the pyrrole has been observed in EDTEPC molecule
due to the presence of the ethoxy group present at C2 of pyrrole
ring. The molecular structure of PT and EDTEPC shows E-configura-
tion of the hydrazone double bond. The presence of a methylene
and sulphonamide frame between the pyrrole and benzene moie-
ties allows the benzene ring and the pyrrole system to be some-
what parallel with respect to each other, so that the molecule
adopts a U-shaped spatial conformation. The crystal structures of
synthesized compounds have not been reported but geometrical
parameters are taken for optimization from the crystal structure
of 4-ethyl benzene sulfonylhydrazones [31]. Optimized geometry
for monomer and dimer of PT and EDTEPC are shown in Fig. 2,
respectively. Both molecules exist in the form of dimer. The dimer
of EDTEPC form eight member ring, due to the intermolecular clas-
sical hydrogen bonding (NAHꢃ ꢃ ꢃO) both proton donor (NAH bond)
and proton acceptor (C@O bond) are elongated by 1.0204 from
1.0103 Å(monomer) and 1.232 from 1.224 Å(monomer), respec-
tively. EDTEPC also form dimer through hydrazone NAH and
S@O group. The dimer of EDTEPC through hydrazone NAH and
S@O group is higher in energy than EDTEPC dimer through NAH
and C@O group. Total energy for ground state lower energy dimer
of EDTEPC is calculated as ꢂ3126.18000 a.u. The PT forms dimer
through hydrazone NAH and S@O group. The total energy of PT
is calculated as ꢂ2355.84276 a.u. The elongation of 1.0314 Å
(1.0234 Å monomer), 1.464 Å (1.478 Å monomer) in bond length
of hydrazone NAH and tosyl S@O group, respectively, in PT dimer.
The calculated binding energy of EDTEPC and PT dimer formation
are found as 13.12, 14.12 kcal/mol, respectively, after correction
in basis set superposition error (BSSE) via standard counterpoise
method [32].
Experimental details and quantum chemical calculations
The Mass spectrum of PT and EDTEPC were recorded on
JEOL-Acc TDF JMS-T100LC, Accu TOF mass spectrometer. The 1H
NMR spectra of PT and EDTEPC were recorded in DMSO-d6 on
Bruker DRX-300 spectrometer using TMS as an internal reference.
The FT-IR-spectra of PT and EDTEPC were recorded in KBr medium
on a Bruker-spectrometer. The UV-Visible absorption spectra of PT
and EDTEPC, (1 ꢁ 10ꢂ5 M in DMSO) were recorded on ELICO SL-164
spectrophotometer. All the quantum chemical calculations have
been carried out with Gaussian 09 program package [28] to predict
the molecular structure, energies of the optimized geometry, 1H
NMR chemical shifts and vibrational wavenumbers using DFT level
of theory, B3LYP functional and 6-31G(d,p) as basis set. The
optimized geometrical parameters are used in the vibrational
wavenumbers calculation to characterize all stationary points as
minima and their harmonic vibrational wavenumbers are positive.
Potential energy distribution (PED) along internal coordinates is
calculated by Gar2ped software [29]. Molecular graph were
computed using AIMALL software [30]. To estimate the enthalpy
(H) and Gibbs free energy (G) values, thermal corrections to the
enthalpy and Gibbs free energy are added to the calculated total
energies.
Preparation of 1H-pyrrole-2-tosylhydrazone (PT)
A
solution of 4-methylbenzenesulfonylhydrazide (0.2134 g,
1.1464 mmol) in 15 ml methanol and 0.01 ml of conc. HCl as
catalyst was added drop-wise with stirring in solution of
2-formyl-1H-pyrrole (0.250 g, 1.1464 mmol) in 10 ml methanol
at room temperature. After stirring for 12 h, the precipitate was
obtained. The precipitate was filtered by vacuum filtration, washed
with methanol and dried in air, afforded (0.200 g, 45.17%) of PT, as
orange color solid. m.p. 169–173 °C; Anal. calcd. for C12H13N3O2S: C
54.74%, H 4.98%, N 15.96%, obs.: C 54.02%, H 4.72%, N 15.44%. MS
(m/z): calcd. 263.07, obs. 264 [M+H]+.
The calculated thermodynamic parameters for dimerization
reaction at 25 °C are listed in Table 1. For dimerization reaction,
the calculated negative value of Gibbs free energy change (DG)
show that the reaction is spontaneous thermodynamically. At
room temperature, the equilibrium constant (Keq) for dimerization