| Abstract: | Polysulfonyl Amines. LVII. Two Silver(I) Di(organosulfonyl)-amides with Silver-η2-Aryl or Silver-Silver Interactions: Crystal Structures of Silver Di(benzenesulfonyl)amide-Water (1/0.5) and of Anhydrous Silver Di(4-toluenesulfonyl)-amide Crystals of (PhSO2)2NAg(μ-H2O)AgN(SO2Ph)2]n ( 5 ) and (4-Me? C6H4SO2)2NAgAgN(SO2C6H4-4-Me)2]n ( 6 ) were obtained from aqueous solutions. The crystallographic data are for 5 (at ?95°C): monoclinic, space group C2/c, a = 2 743.8(5), b = 600.49(12), c = 1 664.5(3) pm, β = 101.143(15)°, V = 2.6908 nm3, Z = 8, Dx = 2.040 Mg m?3; for 6 (at ?130°C): monoclinic, space group P21/n, a = 1 099.8(5), b = 563.7(3), c = 2 487.7(13) pm, β = 99.68(4)°, V = 1.5203 nm3, Z = 4, Dx = 1.888 Mg m?3. In both crystals, the silver atom has a fivefold coordination. The structure of 5 displays (RSO2)2N? Ag(μ-H2O)Ag′? N(SO2R)2] units with Ag? N 226.9 pm, Ag? O 236.7 pm and Ag? O? Ag′ 95.3°; the water oxygen lies on a crystallographic twofold axis. These units are extended to two fused six-membered rings by intramolecular dative bonds (S)O → Ag′ and S(O)′ → Ag (249.3 pm). One phenyl group from each (PhSO2)2N moiety is η2-coordinated with its p-C and one m-C atom to a silver atom of a neighbouring bicyclic unit related by a glide plane to form infinite parallel strands (p-C? Ag 252.2, m-C? Ag 263.9 pm). The strands are interconnected into parallel layers through hydrogen bonds between H2O and sulfonyl oxygens O …? O(S) 276.1 pm]. These layers consist of a hydrophilic inner region containing metal ions, N(SO2)2 fragments and water molecules, and hydrophobic surfaces formed by phenyl groups. The structure of 6 features centrosymmetric (RSO2)2N? Ag? Ag′? N(SO2R)2] units with two intramolecular dative bonds (S)O → Ag′ and (S)O′ → Ag (Ag? Ag′ 295.4, Ag? N 226.0, Ag? O 229.4 pm). These bi-pentacyclic units are associated by translation parallel to y into infinite strands by two dative (S)O → Ag bonds per silver atom (Ag? O 243.2 and 253.3 pm). |
