1,1‐Di(9‐fluorenyl)­ethyl acetate,a by‐­product from the acetyl­ation of 9‐fluorenyl­lithium

The preparation of sp‐9‐acetyl­fluorene from the reaction of 9‐­fluorenyl­lithium with acetyl chloride also provided 9‐(1‐acetoxy­ethyl­idene)­fluorene (`di­acetyl­fluorene') and 1,1‐di(9‐fluorenyl)­ethanol, (II), as by‐products recently characterized by X‐ray analysis. A third by‐product, 1,1‐di(9‐fluorenyl)­ethyl acetate, (III), C₃₀H₂₄O₂, has now been unequivocally identified for the first time, and emanates from the acetyl­ation of the oxy­anion of (II). In the asymmetric unit, compound (III) exists as two almost identical structures which differ slightly, but significantly, in conformation. Neither possesses the significant fluorene‐ring bowing or the perpendicularity of the two ring planes exhibited by (II). The angle between the least‐squares planes of the two fluorene rings of (III) is 58.45 (9) and 60.95 (10)°, respectively, for the two conformations, and their corresponding bonding parameters also differ slightly in a number of instances.     

9‐(1‐Acetoxy­ethyl­idene)­fluorene (`diacetyl­fluorene'), a by‐product from the acetyl­ation of 9‐fluorenyl­lithium

Treatment of 9‐fluorenyl­lithium with acetyl chloride produces 9‐acetyl­fluorene, (I), and several by‐products, among which is `di­acetyl­fluorene', now characterized definitively as 9‐(1‐acetoxy­ethyl­idene)­fluorene [IUPAC name: (1‐fluoren‐9‐yl­idene­)ethyl acetate], (II), C₁₇H₁₄O₂, derived from acetyl­ation of initially formed (I). Various parameters disclose substantial structural distortion within (II) emanating from A^(1,3) strain associated with the 9‐(acetoxy­ethyl­idenyl)­fluorene system.     

sp‐9‐Acetyl­fluorene,the initial acetyl­ation product of 9‐fluorenyl­lithium

The reaction of 9‐fluorenyl­lithium with acetyl chloride (tetra­hydro­furan, 213 K, under argon) provided four products which we have isolated and whose structures we have unequivocally identified for the first time. That of the initially formed component, 9‐acetyl­fluorene (C₁₅H₁₂O), described here, shows it to be exclusively the sp rotamer in its crystalline form. The acetyl C—C=O plane is essentially perpendicular to the planar fluorene ring and there is no indication of rotational restriction. In contrast, related 9‐pivaloyl­fluorene, which we reported previously, is rotationally restricted and exists exclusively as its ap rotamer, in which the pivaloyl C—C=O plane is also almost perpendicular to the fluorene ring.     

Di­spiro­[fluorene‐9,5′‐[1,2,3,4]­tetra­thia­ne‐6′,9′′‐fluorene]

The tetra­thia­ne ring of the title compound, C₂₆H₁₆S₄, has a chair conformation and the mol­ecule has approximate C₂ symmetry. Each of the two fluorene ring systems is virtually planar, with the ring planes intersecting at an angle of 67.58 (5)°. This novel compound has been formed as a side product from the treatment of 9H‐fluorene‐9‐thione with methyl N‐[(benzyl­idene)­phenyl]­glycinate in the presence of LiBr and 1,6‐di­aza­bi­cyclo­[5.4.0]­un­decane.     

sp‐9‐(o‐Methyl­phenyl)­fluorene

While the barriers of rotation of the sp and ap rotamers of 9‐(o‐methyl­phenyl)­fluorene, C₂₀H₁₆, are sufficiently similar to permit them to equilibrate, both being observed (NMR) in solution, crystallization provides the sp rotamer, (I), exclusively. Although in the sp conformation the intramolecular distance between adjacent C atoms of the phenyl and fluorene rings is small [3.382 (4) Å, within 0.02 Å of the sum of the van der Waals radii], in the ap conformation the distance between the adjacent o‐CH₃ group on the phenyl ring and C atom of the fluorene ring would be much closer, based on that exhibited in the crystalline ap progenitor 9‐(o‐methyl­phenyl)‐9‐fluorenol. The angle between the fluorene and 9‐aryl planes of (I) is 75.82 (10)°.     

9,9‐Di‐n‐octyl‐9H‐fluorene

The title compound, C₂₉H₄₂, crystallizes from the melt as a triclinic crystal. The unit cell contains three crystallographically independent mol­ecules. The three fluorene ring systems are oriented such that two non‐equivalent ring systems related by a roto‐translation are separated by a third ring system oriented orthogonally to them. The octyl chains of all three mol­ecules are perpendicular to the fluorene ring system and force a 7.4 Å separation between the two coplanar mol­ecules, thereby preventing mol­ecular π‐stacking.     

2‐(2‐Naphthyl­oxy)­acetate derivatives. II. A new class of antiamnesic agents

The title compounds, 4‐(2‐naphthyl­oxy­methyl­carbonyl)­morpholine, C₁₆H₁₇NO₃, (I), and 4‐methyl‐1‐(2‐naphthyl­oxy­methyl­carbonyl)­piper­azine, C₁₇H₂₀N₂O₂, (II), are potential antiamnesics. The morpholine ring in (I) and the piperazine ring in (II) adopt chair conformations. In (I), the mol­ecules are linked by weak intermolecular C—H⃛O interactions into chains that have a graph‐set motif of C(10), while in (II), the mol­ecules are linked by weak intermolecular C—H⃛O interactions that generate two C(7) graph‐set motifs. The dihedral angle between the naphthalene moiety and the best plane through the morpholine ring is 20.62 (4)° in (I), while the naphthalene moiety is oriented nearly perpendicular to the mean plane of the piperazine ring in (II).     

N‐(3H‐Thia­zol‐2‐yl­idene)­nitr­amine and N‐methyl‐N‐(thia­zol‐2‐yl)­nitr­amine

The geometries of the thia­zole ring and the nitr­amino groups in N‐(3H‐thia­zol‐2‐yl­idene)­nitr­amine, C₃H₃N₃O₂S, (I), and N‐­methyl‐N‐(thia­zol‐2‐yl)­nitr­amine, C₄H₅N₃O₂S, (II), are very similar. The nitr­amine group in (II) is planar and twisted along the C—N bond with respect to the thia­zole ring. In both structures, the asymmetric unit includes two practically equal mol­ecules. In (I), the mol­ecules are arranged in layers connected to each other by N—H⋯N and much weaker C—H⋯O hydrogen bonds. In the crystal structure of (II), the mol­ecules are arranged in layers bound to each other by both weak C—H⋯O hydrogen bonds and S⋯O dipolar interactions.     

Two hydrates of 2,6‐bis­(1H‐benzimidazol‐2‐yl)­pyridine

The structures of the mono‐ and sesquihydrates of 2,6‐bis(1H‐benz­imi­da­zol‐2‐yl)­pyridine (bbip) are reported. Phase (I), C₁₉H₁₃N₅·H₂O, has one water and one bbip mol­ecule in the asymmetric unit, while phase (II), C₁₉H₁₃N₅·1.5H₂O, has three water mol­ecules and two bbip mol­ecules in the asymmetric unit. The compounds exhibit very similar molecular geom­etries but different packing organizations, which result from intricate hydrogen‐bonding schemes.     

4‐Vinyl­benzoic acid and 9‐vinyl­anthracene

The crystal structures of two styrene analogues, 4‐vinyl­benzoic acid, C₉H₈O₂, (I), and 9‐vinyl­anthracene, C₁₆H₁₂, (II), were determined by X‐ray analyses at 108 and 293 K for (I) and at 123 and 293 K for (II). In (I), a pair of mol­ecules around an inversion center form a dimer connected by two carboxyl groups. The anthracene planes of two mol­ecules in (II) are antiparallel to each other around an inversion center. The vinyl group of (I) is almost coplanar with the phenyl ring, whereas the vinyl group of (II) is nearly perpendicular to the anthracene plane. In (I), the bond length of the vinyl group at 293 K is significantly shorter than that at 108 K [1.288 (2) versus 1.3248 (14) Å] suggesting a bias of the thermal motion, whereas the bond lengths are not so different between the two temperatures in (II) [1.3266 (15) versus 1.310 (2) Å].     

Supramolecular hydrogen‐bonded hexamers in two 5‐aryl‐3‐methyl‐1‐phenyl‐1,6,7,8‐tetra­hydro­pyrazolo­[3,4‐b][1,4]­diazepines

In both title compounds, i.e. 3‐methyl‐1,5‐di­phenyl‐1,6,7,8‐tetra­hydro­pyrazolo­[3,4‐b][1,4]­diazepine, C₁₉H₁₈N₄, (I), and 5‐(4‐chloro­phenyl)‐3‐methyl‐1‐phenyl‐1,6,7,8‐tetra­hydro­pyra­zolo­[3,4‐b][1,4]­diazepine, C₁₉H₁₇ClN₄, (II), an N—H?N hydrogen bond links six mol­ecules to form an R(30) ring. Compound (I) crystallizes in the R space group and (II) crystallizes in P with three mol­ecules in the asymmetric unit. The mol­ecule of (I) contains a disordered seven‐membered ring.     

(–)‐Dioxosantadienic acid: hydrogen‐bonding patterns in a bicyclic sesquiterpenoid keto acid and its mono­hydrate

The an­hydrous form, (I), of the title compound, (?)‐2‐(1,2,3,4,4a,7‐hexa­hydro‐4a,8‐di­methyl‐1,7‐dioxo‐2‐naphthyl)­propionic acid, C₁₅H₁₈O₄, derived from a naturally occurring sesquiterpenoid, has two mol­ecules in the asymmetric unit, (I) and (I′), differing in the conformations of the saturated ring and the carboxyl group. The compound aggregates as carboxyl‐to‐ketone hydrogen‐bonding catemers [O?O = 2.776 (3) and 2.775 (3) Å]. Two crystallographically independent sets of single‐strand hydrogen‐bonding helices with opposite end‐to‐end orientation pass through the cell in the b direction, one consisting exclusively of mol­ecules of (I) and the other entirely of (I′). Three C—H?O=C close contacts are found in (I). The monohydrate, C₁₅H₁₈O₄·H₂O, (II), with two mol­ecules of (I) plus two water mol­ecules in its asymmetric unit, forms a complex three‐dimensional hydrogen‐bonding network including acid‐to‐water, water‐to‐acid, water‐to‐ketone, water‐to‐water and acid‐to‐acid hydrogen bonds, plus three C—H?O=C close contacts. In both (I) and (II), only the ketone remote from the acid is involved in hydrogen bonding.     

The epimeric 9‐oxobicyclo[3.3.1]nonane‐3‐carboxylic acids: hydrogen‐bonding patterns of the endo acid and the lactol of the exo acid

The two δ‐keto carboxylic acids of the title, both C₁₀H₁₄O₃, are epimeric at the site of carboxyl attachment. The endo (3α) epimer, (I), has its keto‐acid ring in a boat conformation, with the tilt of the carboxyl group creating conformational chirality. The mol­ecules form hydrogen bonds by centrosymmetric pairing of carboxyl groups across the corners of the chosen cell [O⃛O = 2.671 (2) Å and O—H⃛O = 179 (2)°]. Two close intermolecular C—H⃛O contacts exist for the ketone. The exo (3β) epimer exists in the closed ring–chain tautomeric form as the lactol, 8‐hydroxy‐9‐oxatri­cyclo­[5.3.1.0^3,8]­undecan‐10‐one, (II). The mol­ecules have conformational chirality, and the hydrogen‐bonding scheme involves intermolecular hydroxyl‐to‐carbonyl chains of mol­ecules screw‐related in b [O⃛O = 2.741 (2) Å and O—H⃛O = 177 (2)°].     

The surprising sp rotameric structure of 9‐methyl‐9‐pivaloyl­fluorene

Methyl­ation of 9‐li­thia­ted ap‐9‐pivaloyl­fluorene, (I), as well as pivaloyl­ation of 9‐li­thia­ted 9‐methyl­fluorene provided rotationally stable sp‐9‐methyl‐9‐pivaloyl­fluorene, (III), C₁₉H₂₀O, which lies about a crystallographic mirror plane. Fluorene (I) exists exclusively in the ap configuration in solution (NMR) as well as in the crystalline state, reflecting the unfavorable interaction between the tert‐butyl and fluorene‐ring π electrons in the sp configuration. The existence of (III) exclusively in the sp configuration indicates that, in this case, the interaction between the tert‐butyl group and the fluorene‐ring π electrons provides relatively more thermodynamic stability than the steric interaction between the tert‐butyl and 9‐methyl groups (ap configuration).     

N‐(1‐Naphthyl­acetyl)­glycine phen­acyl ester and phen­acyl (1‐naphthyl­acetoxy)­acetate

The structures of the bichromophoric compounds N‐(1‐naphthyl­acetyl)­gly­cine phen­acyl ester, C₂₂H₁₉NO₄, (I), and its oxy­gen analogue, phen­acyl (1‐naphthyl­acetoxy)­acetate, C₂₂H₁₈O₅, (II), have been determined. The mol­ecules of (I) are held together by intermolecular N—H⋯O hydrogen bonds between the carbonyl and N—H groups, while compound (II) does not show any hydrogen bonding in the crystal.     

N—H⋯N and C—H⋯π inter­actions in 4‐amino‐3‐methyl‐5‐(p‐tol­yl)‐4H‐1,2,4‐triazole and 4‐amino‐3‐methyl‐5‐phenyl‐4H‐1,2,4‐triazole

The title compounds, C₁₀H₁₂N₄, (I), and C₉H₁₀N₄, (II), have been synthesized and characterized both spectroscopically and structurally. The dihedral angles between the triazole and benzene ring planes are 26.59 (9) and 42.34 (2)°, respectively. In (I), mol­ecules are linked principally by N—H⋯N hydrogen bonds involving the amino NH₂ group and a triazole N atom, forming R₄⁴(20) and R₂⁴(10) rings which link to give a three‐dimensional network of mol­ecules. The hydrogen bonding is supported by two different C—H⋯π inter­actions from the tolyl ring to either a triazole ring or a tolyl ring in neighboring mol­ecules. In (II), inter­molecular hydrogen bonds and C—H⋯π inter­actions produce R₃⁴(15) and R₄⁴(21) rings.     

1,3‐Dibenzoylimidazolidine‐2‐thione and 1,3‐dibenzo­yl‐3,4,5,6‐tetra­hydro­pyrimidine‐2(1H)‐thione

The title compounds, 1,3‐dibenzo­ylimidazolidine‐2‐thione, C₁₇H₁₄N₂O₂S, (I), and 1,3‐dibenzo­yl‐3,4,5,6‐tetra­hydro­pyrimidine‐2(1H)‐thione, C₁₈H₁₆N₂O₂S, (II), were obtained from the reactions of imidazolidine‐2‐thione and 1,4,5,6‐tetra­hydro­pyrimidine‐2‐thiol, respectively, with benzoyl chloride. Compounds (I) and (II) contain, respectively, imidazolidinethione [C=S = 1.6509 (14) Å] and ­pyrimidinethione [C=S = 1.6918 (19) Å] moieties bonded to two benzoyl rings. The mol­ecules of (I) exhibit C₂ symmetry, the C=S bond lying along the twofold rotation axis, while the mol­ecules of (II) have mirror symmetry (C_s). The imida­zolidine ring in (I) is essentially planar, while the pyrimidine ring in (II) adopts a boat conformation. Mol­ecules of (I) are linked by weak inter­molecular C—H⋯O inter­actions, while mol­ecules of (II) are held together by van der Waals inter­actions.     

10‐(4‐Fluorophenyl)‐3,3,6,6,9‐pentamethyl‐3,4,6,7,9,10‐hexahydroacridine‐1,8(2H,5H)‐dione and 10‐(4‐fluorophenyl)‐3,3,6,6‐tetramethyl‐9‐­propyl‐3,4,6,7,9,10‐hexahydroacridine‐1,8(2H,5H)‐dione

10‐(4‐Fluoro­phenyl)‐3,3,6,6,9‐penta­methyl‐3,4,6,7,9,10‐hexa­hydro­acridine‐1,8(2H,5H)‐dione, C₂₄H₂₈FNO₂, (I), crystallizes with two crystallographically independent mol­ecules (which differ slightly in conformation), while 10‐(4‐fluoro­phenyl)‐9‐propyl‐3,3,6,6‐tetra­methyl‐3,4,6,7,9,10‐hexa­hydro­acridine‐1,8(2H,5H)‐dione, C₂₆H₃₂FNO₂, (II), crystallizes with one mol­ecule per asymmetric unit. In both structures, the central ring in the acridine moiety is in a sofa conformation, while the outer rings adopt intermediate half‐chair/sofa conformations. The central pyridine ring is orthogonal to the substituted phenyl ring. In both structures, the packing of the crystal is stabilized by C—H?O intermolecular hydrogen bonds.     

Two derivatives of 5‐amino­tetrazole: 5‐amino‐1‐phenyl­tetrazole and 5‐amino‐1‐(1‐naphthyl)­tetrazole

In the mol­ecules of 5‐amino‐1‐phenyl­tetrazole, C₇H₇N₅, (I), and 5‐amino‐1‐(1‐naphthyl)­tetrazole, C₁₁H₉N₅, (II), the tetrazole rings and aryl fragments are not coplanar; corresponding dihedral angles are 50.58 (5) and 45.19 (7)° for the two independent mol­ecules of (I), and 64.14 (5)° for (II). Intermolecular N—H⋯N hydrogen bonds between the amino groups and tetrazole N atoms are primarily responsible for formation of two‐dimensional networks extending parallel to the bc plane in both compounds. The presence of the amino group has a distinct effect on the geometry of the tetrazole rings in each case.     

11‐Methyl‐12a‐phenyl‐9a,12a‐dihydrophenanthro[9′,10′:5,6][1,4]dioxino[2,3‐d]oxazole and 9a‐(10‐hydroxyphenanthren‐9‐yl)‐11,12a‐diphenyl‐9a,12a‐dihydrophenanthro[9′,10′:5,6][1,4]dioxino[2,3‐d]oxazole

In the title compounds, C₂₄H₁₇NO₃, (I), and C₄₃H₂₇NO₅, (II), the dioxine ring is not planar and tends toward a boat conformation. The oxazoline ring adopts a twisted conformation in mol­ecule (I) but is essentially planar in mol­ecule (II). The configuration of the dioxine–oxazoline system is determined by the sp³ state of the two shared atoms. The phenanthrene moiety is nearly coplanar with the dioxine ring, while the phenyl ring is perpendicular to the attached oxazole ring. The triclinic unit cell of (II) contains two crystallographically independent mol­ecules related by a pseudo‐inversion centre.