Synthesis and structures of six closely related N‐[3‐(2‐chlorobenzoyl)‐5‐ethylthiophen‐2‐yl]arylamides,together with an isolated reaction intermediate: order versus disorder,molecular conformations and hydrogen bonding in zero,one and two dimensions

Six closely related N‐3‐(2‐chlorobenzoyl)‐5‐ethylthiophen‐2‐yl]arylamides have been synthesized and structurally characterized, together with a representative reaction intermediate. In each of N‐3‐(2‐chlorobenzoyl)‐5‐ethylthiophen‐2‐yl]benzamide, C₂₀H₁₆ClNO₂S, (I), N‐3‐(2‐chlorobenzoyl)‐5‐ethylthiophen‐2‐yl]‐4‐phenylbenzamide, C₂₆H₂₀ClNO₂S, (II), and 2‐bromo‐N‐3‐(2‐chlorobenzoyl)‐5‐ethylthiophen‐2‐yl]benzamide, C₂₀H₁₅BrClNO₂S, (III), the molecules are disordered over two sets of atomic sites, with occupancies of 0.894 (8) and 0.106 (8) in (I), 0.832 (5) and 0.168 (5) in (II), and 0.7006 (12) and 0.2994 (12) in (III). In each of N‐3‐(2‐chlorobenzoyl)‐5‐ethylthiophen‐2‐yl]‐2‐iodobenzamide, C₂₀H₁₅ClINO₂S, (IV), and N‐3‐(2‐chlorobenzoyl)‐5‐ethylthiophen‐2‐yl]‐2‐methoxybenzamide, C₂₁H₁₈ClNO₃S, (V), the molecules are fully ordered, but in N‐3‐(2‐chlorobenzoyl)‐5‐ethylthiophen‐2‐yl]‐2,6‐difluorobenzamide, C₂₀H₁₄ClF₂NO₂S, (VI), which crystallizes with Z′ = 2 in the space group C2/c, one of the two independent molecules is fully ordered, while the other is disordered over two sets of atomic sites having occupancies of 0.916 (3) and 0.084 (3). All of the molecules in compounds (I)–(VI) exhibit an intramolecular N—H…O hydrogen bond. The molecules of (I) and (VI) are linked by C—H…O hydrogen bonds to form finite zero‐dimensional dimers, which are cyclic in (I) and acyclic in (VI), those of (III) are linked by C—H…π(arene) hydrogen bonds to form simple chains, and those of (IV) and (V) are linked into different types of chains of rings, built in each case from a combination of C—H…O and C—H…π(arene) hydrogen bonds. Two C—H…O hydrogen bonds link the molecules of (II) into sheets containing three types of ring. In benzotriazol‐1‐yl 3,4‐dimethoxybenzoate, C₁₅H₁₃N₃O₄, (VII), the benzoate component is planar and makes a dihedral angle of 84.51 (6)° with the benzotriazole unit. Comparisons are made with related compounds.