Crystal Structure of (E)-4-Bromo-2-[(4-hydroxyphenyl)iminomethyl]-phenylen-1-olate

Abstract

The title compound, (E)-4-bromo-2-[(4-hydroxyphenyl)iminomethyl]phenylen-1-olate, C13H10BrNO2, is in a zwitterionic form with a strong intramolecular N+-H…O- hydrogen bond. The title compound crystallizes in the monoclinic space group P21/c with the following unit-cell parameters: a = 12.6746(11)A, b = 12.8195(15)A, c = 7.1576(7)A, β = 94.993(7)° and V = 1158.6(2)A3. The crystal structure of this compound was solved by direct methods and refined to a final R = +0.0362 for 2285 reflections with I > 2σ(I).