organic compounds
suggest an attractive hydrogen-bonding interaction forming an
S(6) ring (Bernstein et al., 1995). However, the bond angles
associated with the central CÐCÐC fragment are all strongly
indicative of a repulsive CÐHÁ Á ÁS interaction; thus, the angles
at the methine C atom linking the two rings are all around
130ꢀ. Moreover, the two exocyclic angles at thiazolidine atom
C5 consistently differ by ca 10ꢀ, and the exocyclic angles at
benzene atom C61 consistently differ by ca 6ꢀ, always in the
sense that the larger angle is that contained within the S(6)
motif. All of these bond angles are thus consistent with a
highly repulsive CÐHÁ Á ÁS contact, and it is noteworthy that
the repulsive contact is accommodated by distortion of the
skeletal bond angles in preference to a rotation about the
C6ÐC61 bond, which might at ®rst sight appear to be the less
energy-costly solution. In this respect, the behaviour of
compounds (I)±(IV) resembles that of a series of 5-(aryl-
methylene)-1,3-dimethylpyrimidine-2,4,6(1H,3H,5H)-triones,
whose essentially planar molecular skeletons are character-
ized by very wide CÐCÐC angles (ca 137±139ꢀ) at the brid-
ging methine C atom (Rezende et al., 2005).
involving the C4ÐO4 bonds in the molecules at (x, y, z) and
i
Ê
(1 x, 1 y, 1 z). The O4Á Á ÁC4 distance is 3.042 (2) A and
the C4ÐO4Á Á ÁC4i angle is 81.52 (9)ꢀ [symmetry code: (i) 1 x,
1
y, 1
z], so that this interaction typi®es the nearly
rectangular antiparallel type II motif (Allen et al., 1998). The
effect of this interaction is to link, albeit weakly, the hydrogen-
bonded dimers into a [100] chain. On the other hand, aromatic
ꢀ±ꢀ stacking interactions and intermolecular CÐHÁ Á ÁO and
CÐHÁ Á Áꢀ(arene) hydrogen bonds are all absent.
The notional replacement of the methyl group in (II) by a
tri¯uoromethyl group in (III) causes a marked change in the
supramolecular aggregation. The molecules of (III) are again
linked into centrosymmetric R22(8) dimers, but now by means
of paired NÐHÁ Á ÁS hydrogen bonds, as opposed to the NÐ
HÁ Á ÁO hydrogen bonds in (II). In addition, aryl atom C63 in
the molecule at (x, y, z) acts as a hydrogen-bond donor to
ketone atom O4 in the molecule at ( 1 + x, 1 + y, z), so
generating by translation a C(8) chain running parallel to the
[110] direction. The combination of the two hydrogen bonds
then generates a chain of edge-fused rings along [110], in
which R22(8) rings centred at (n, n 21, 12 ) (n = zero or integer)
In each of (I)±(IV), the ring angle at atom S1 is little greater
than 90ꢀ, while in (IV), the exocyclic bond angles at the ring C
atom ipso to the methoxy substituent show the usual devia-
tions from 120ꢀ.
The supramolecular structure of (I) is considerably more
complex than those of (II)±(IV), and it is the only one of the
series (I)±(IV) in which CÐHÁ Á Áꢀ(arene) hydrogen bonds
occur. For these reasons, we describe ®rst (II), which has the
simplest supramolecular structure, then (III) and (IV), and
®nally (I).
The molecules of (II) are linked by paired NÐHÁ Á ÁO
hydrogen bonds (Table 2) into a centrosymmetric R22(8) dimer
(Fig. 5), but the only direction-speci®c interaction between
these dimers is a dipolar carbonyl±carbonyl interaction
Figure 4
The molecule of (IV), showing the atom-labelling scheme. Displacement
ellipsoids are drawn at the 30% probability level.
Figure 2
The molecule of (II), showing the atom-labelling scheme. Displacement
ellipsoids are drawn at the 30% probability level.
Figure 5
Part of the crystal structure of (II), showing the formation of a
centrosymmetric hydrogen-bonded dimer. For clarity, H atoms bonded
to C atoms have been omitted. Atoms marked with an asterisk (*) are at
the symmetry position (2 x, 1 y, 1 z).
Figure 3
The molecule of (III), showing the atom-labelling scheme. Displacement
ellipsoids are drawn at the 30% probability level.
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