2-(4-chloro-3,3,7-trimethyl-2,3-dihydro-1H-indol-2-ylidene) -2-cyanoacetamide

Madeleine Helliwell, Mehdi M. Baradarani*, Maryam Alyari, Arash Afghan, John A. Joule

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    Abstract

    Reaction of 2-(4-chloro-3,3,7-trimethyl-2,3-dihydro-1 H-indol-2-ylidene) propanedial with hydroxylamine gives the title compound, C 14H 14ClN 3O, in which the ring N atom is essentially planar [sum of angles around the ring N atom = 361°], indicating conjugation with the 2-cyanoacrylamide unit. The orientation of the acetamide group arises from intramolecular hydrogen bonding between the indole N-H and carbonyl groups. In the crystal, inversion-related acetamide groups form N-H ·· · O hydrogen-bonded dimers in graph-set R 2 2(8) motifs, whilst dimers are also formed by pairs of aminenitrile N-H ··· N hydrogen bonds in R 2 2(12) motifs. These interactions together generate ribbons that propagate along the b-axis direction.

    Original languageEnglish
    JournalActa Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online
    Volume68
    Issue number1
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2012

    Keywords

    • Data-to-parameter ratio = 12.8
    • Mean σ(C-C) = 0.006 Å
    • R factor = 0.065
    • Single-crystal X-ray study
    • T = 100 K
    • wR factor = 0.132

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