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zole obtained by intramolecular cyclization of N -(2-cyano-
acetyl)-4-methylbenzenesulfonohydrazide. Some time ago, we
reported the structure of the corresponding 1-phenyl deriva-
tive, (II) (Elgemeie et al., 1998).
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True symmetry or pseudosymmetry:
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-amino-1-(4-methylphenylsulfonyl)-
-pyrazolin-3-one and a comparison
with its 1-phenylsulfonyl analogue
Compound (I) can potentially exist in a different tautomeric
hydroxy) form. However, spectroscopic studies indicated the
(
1
3
a
a
presence of the NH tautomer in solution (e.g. the C NMR
signal at 172.65 p.p.m. indicates a carbonyl C atom rather than
a C—OH group). X-ray analysis (Fig. 1) establishes the
exclusive presence of the ketonic form in the solid state; all H
atoms could be located unambiguously, and bond lengths are
also consistent with the NH form. Molecular dimensions
Galal H. Elgemeie, Shahinaz H. Sayed and Peter G.
b
Jones *
a
Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt, and
b
Institut f u¨ r Anorganische und Analytische Chemie, Technische Universit a¨ t
(
Table 1) may be regarded as normal. Atoms N2 and N3 are
˚
pyramidally coordinated; they lie 0.31 (1) and 0.21 (1) A,
respectively, out of the plane of their three substituents. The
Received 30 November 2012
Accepted 5 December 2012
Online 15 December 2012
pyrazoline ring is reasonably planar (r.m.s. deviation =
˚
0
.04 A), although its largest absolute torsion angle is N1—
The title compound, C H N O S, (I), crystallizes as the NH
11
ꢀ
10
3
3
N2—C3—C4, ꢂ10.30 (11) . The two rings subtend an inter-
tautomer. The two rings subtend an interplanar angle of
ꢀ
ꢀ
planar angle of 72.54 (4) , and their orientation is further
described by the torsion angles C12—C11—S1—O2 =
72.54 (4) . An intramolecular hydrogen bond is formed from
the NH group to a sulfonyl O atom. The molecular packing
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ꢀ
ꢀ
ꢂ0.31 (11) and N2—N1—S1—O3 = ꢂ179.59 (7) . In other
words, C12—C11 is synperiplanar to S1—O2, and N1—N2 is
antiperiplanar to S1—O3. An intramolecular N3—
H03Aꢁ ꢁ ꢁO3 hydrogen bond is observed, albeit with a narrow
involves layers of molecules parallel to the bc plane at x ’ 0, 1
etc., with two classical linear hydrogen bonds (amino–sulfonyl
and pyrazoline–carbonyl N—Hꢁ ꢁ ꢁO) and a further interaction
(
amino–sulfonyl N—Hꢁ ꢁ ꢁO) completing a three-centre system
ꢀ
angle of 116.6 (14) at the H atom; at N3, atoms H03A and
with the intramolecular contact. The analogous phenyl
derivative, (II) [Elgemeie, Hanfy, Hopf & Jones (1998). Acta
Cryst. C54, 136–138], crystallizes with essentially the same unit
cell and packing pattern, but with two independent molecules
that differ significantly in the orientation of the phenyl groups.
The space group is P2 /c for (I) but P2 for (II), which is thus a
H03B lie out of the plane (of the pyrazoline ring plus N3) by
˚
.28 (2) and 0.25 (2) A, respectively, both in the opposite
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direction to atom O3.
The molecular packing of (I) involves thick layers of mol-
ecules parallel to the bc plane at x ’ 0, 1 etc. (Fig. 2); the tolyl
groups project into the space between the layers (Fig. 3). In
1
1
pseudosymmetric counterpart of (I).
the order shown in Table 2, hydrogen bond 1 forms eight-
2
membered rings of the common graph set R (8) (Bernstein et
2
al., 1995) over an inversion centre, hydrogen bonds 2 and 3
Comment
Recent reports from our laboratory have demonstrated the
effectiveness of a variety of N-sulfonylated heterocycles and
other antimetabolites as antiplastic agents in a number of
experimental murine tumour systems (Elgemeie & Sood,
2006; Elgemeie et al., 2009). These compounds have been
shown to cause inhibition of thymidine and uridine incor-
poration into DNA and RNA, and appear to constitute a new
class of antimetabolites (Elgemeie et al., 2007). It was of
interest to study their stereostructures and evaluate the effects
of various structural modifications on their biological activity.
Recently, some of our synthesized N-sulfonylated pyrazoles
proved to be inhibitors of the enzyme cathepsin B (Myers et
al., 2007). Members of this class, along with functional group
analogues, were synthesized in an effort to define the struc-
tural requirements for activity. We report here the synthesis
and structure of the title compound, (I), an N-sulfonated pyra-
Figure 1
The molecular structure of (I), showing the atom-numbering scheme.
Displacement ellipsoids are drawn at the 50% probability level. The
dashed line indicates the intramolecular N—Hꢁ ꢁ ꢁO hydrogen bond.
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Acta Cryst. (2013). C69, 90–92