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Phenyl-ring rotational disorder in the two-dimensional hydrogen-bonded structure of the 1:1 proton-transfer salt of the diazo-dye precursor 4-(phenyldiazenyl)aniline (aniline yellow) with l -tartaric acid

ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION C, Issue 7 2010
Graham Smith
In the structure of the 1:1 proton-transfer compound from the reaction of l -tartaric acid with the azo-dye precursor aniline yellow [4-(phenyldiazenyl)aniline], namely 4-(phenyldiazenyl)anilinium (2R,3R)-3-carboxy-2,3-dihydroxypropanoate, C12H12N3+·C4H5O6,, the asymmetric unit contains two independent 4-(phenyldiazenyl)anilinium cations and two hydrogen l -tartrate anions. The structure is unusual in that all four phenyl rings of the two cations have identical rotational disorder with equal occupancy of the conformations. The two hydrogen l -tartrate anions form independent but similar chains through head-to-tail carboxyl,carboxylate O,H...O hydrogen bonds [graph set C(7)], which are then extended into a two-dimensional hydrogen-bonded sheet structure through hydroxy O,H...O hydrogen-bonded links. The anilinium groups of the 4-(phenyldiazenyl)anilinium cations are incorporated into the sheets and also provide internal hydrogen-bonded extensions, while their aromatic tails are layered in the structure without significant association except for weak ,,, interactions [minimum ring centroid separation = 3.844,(3),Å]. The hydrogen l -tartrate residues of both anions exhibit the common short intramolecular hydroxy,carboxylate O,H...O hydogen bonds. This work provides a solution to the unusual disorder problem inherent in the structure of this salt, as well as giving another example of the utility of the hydrogen tartrate anion in the generation of sheet substructures in molecular assembly processes. [source]

Rotationally disordered phase of 1,3-dibromo-5-iodo-2,4,6-trimethylbenzene at 293 K

ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION C, Issue 10 2009
Soumia Ghanemi
In the crystal state at room temperature, the molecule of dibromoiodomesitylene (1,3-dibromo-5-iodo-2,4,6-trimethylbenzene), C9H9Br2I, is prone to strong disorder, apparently involving only the three halogen sites (occupied identically by 66.7% Br and 33.3% I). This disorder, of the rotational type according to previously published NMR measurements, corresponds to fast 2,/3 stochastic in-plane reorientations of the whole molecule between three discernable locations. This kind of rotational disorder can be revealed for the first time by diffractometry thanks to the C2v idealized molecular symmetry of the title compound, although it has been indirectly suspected at room temperature in other trihalogenomesitylenes of similar crystal packing but of D3h molecular symmetry. The average endocyclic angles facing the Br/I sites and the methyl groups are 124.14,(6) and 115.85,(2)°, respectively. The angle between the normal to the aromatic ring and the normal to the (100) plane is 4.1°. TLS analysis indicates that only the aromatic ring and the methyl groups behave as a rigid body with respect to the thermal librations. [source]

A structural systematic study of four isomers of difluoro- N -(3-pyridyl)benzamide

ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION C, Issue 7 2009
Joyce McMahon
The four isomers 2,4-, (I), 2,5-, (II), 3,4-, (III), and 3,5-difluoro- N -(3-pyridyl)benzamide, (IV), all with formula C12H8F2N2O, display molecular similarity, with interplanar angles between the C6/C5N rings ranging from 2.94,(11)° in (IV) to 4.48,(18)° in (I), although the amide group is twisted from either plane by 18.0,(2),27.3,(3)°. Compounds (I) and (II) are isostructural but are not isomorphous. Intermolecular N,H...O=C interactions form one-dimensional C(4) chains along [010]. The only other significant interaction is C,H...F. The pyridyl (py) N atom does not participate in hydrogen bonding; the closest H...Npy contact is 2.71,Å in (I) and 2.69,Å in (II). Packing of pairs of one-dimensional chains in a herring-bone fashion occurs via,-stacking interactions. Compounds (III) and (IV) are essentially isomorphous (their a and b unit-cell lengths differ by 9%, due mainly to 3,4-F2 and 3,5-F2 substitution patterns in the arene ring) and are quasi-isostructural. In (III), benzene rotational disorder is present, with the meta F atom occupying both 3- and 5-F positions with site occupancies of 0.809,(4) and 0.191,(4), respectively. The N,H...Npy intermolecular interactions dominate as C(5) chains in tandem with C,H...Npy interactions. C,H...O=C interactions form R22(8) rings about inversion centres, and there are ,,, stacks about inversion centres, all combining to form a three-dimensional network. By contrast, (IV) has no strong hydrogen bonds; the N,H...Npy interaction is 0.3,Å longer than in (III). The carbonyl O atom participates only in weak interactions and is surrounded in a square-pyramidal contact geometry with two intramolecular and three intermolecular C,H...O=C interactions. Compounds (III) and (IV) are interesting examples of two isomers with similar unit-cell parameters and gross packing but which display quite different intermolecular interactions at the primary level due to subtle packing differences at the atom/group/ring level arising from differences in the peripheral ring-substitution patterns. [source]

Emerging from pseudo-symmetry: the redetermination of human carbonic anhydrase II in monoclinic P21 with a doubled a axis

ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION D, Issue 8 2010
Arthur H. Robbins
The crystal structure of human carbonic anhydrase II in the monoclinic P21 space group with a doubled a axis from that of the usually observed unit cell has recently been reported, with one of the two molecules in the asymmetric unit demonstrating rotational disorder [Robbins et al. (2010), Acta Cryst. D66, 628,634]. The structure has been redetermined, with the coordinates of both pseudo-symmetrically related molecules in the crystallographic asymmetric unit translated by x, = x± 1/4, and no rotational disorder is observed. This corresponds to a different choice of how the four molecules in the unit cell should be grouped into pairs that represent a single asymmetric unit. [source]