Crystal and molecular structure of diphenylthiosulphodiimide

The crystal and molecular structure of diphenylthiosulphodiimide, C₁₂H₁₀N₂S₃, has been solved by the symbolic addition procedure using three-dimensional CuK diffractometer data. The system is monoclinic,a = 30·41(3),b = 5·601(5),c = 7·792(8) Å, = 108·77(1) °, space groupC2/c andZ = 4. The structure was refined by full-matrix least-squares methods toR = 0·096 for 926 observed reflexions. All hydrogen positions have been determined. The molecule possesses a crystallographic diad axis through the central sulphur atom. The planes of the phenyl rings make an angle of 30·8 ° with the closely coplanar central five atoms.