| Abstract: | The crystal and molecular structures of N-(1,2,4-triazol-5-yl)benzamidine (1) and its hydrochloride (2) were determined by x-ray crystallography. In compound 1 both independent molecules are Z isomers of the anidine substituted in the imino group and 5-substituted 1H-1,2,4-triazoles. In the crystal the molecules of compound 1 are linked into a stable dimer by intermolecular hydrogen bonds. An undissociated HCl molecule was unexpectedly found in the structure of compound 2, while the structure of the base corresponded to the Z isomer of the amidine substituted in the amino group and to 2H-1,2,4-triazole substituted at position 5. The structures of compounds 1 and 2 are stabilized by an intramolecular hydrogen bond. The HCl molecule participates in the formation of intermolecular hydrogen bonds in compound 2.N. D. Zelinskii Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117913 Moscow. Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 6, pp. 1380–1386, June, 1992. |
