Rajakumar Kanthapazham, Artyom A Osipov, Andrey N Efremov, Vladislav S Senchurin, Sergey A Naifert, Dar'ya V Spiridonova, Dmitry A Zherebtsov
{"title":"Crystal structures, thermal properties and intermolecular interactions of new benzamide-based derivatives.","authors":"Rajakumar Kanthapazham, Artyom A Osipov, Andrey N Efremov, Vladislav S Senchurin, Sergey A Naifert, Dar'ya V Spiridonova, Dmitry A Zherebtsov","doi":"10.1107/S2053229625010083","DOIUrl":"10.1107/S2053229625010083","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Two benzamide-based derivatives were synthesized and their structures solved for the first time. The successful syntheses of N-ethyl-4-iodobenzamide (C<sub>9</sub>H<sub>10</sub>INO, NE4IBA) and N-ethyl-4-ethynylbenzamide (C<sub>11</sub>H<sub>11</sub>NO, NE4EBA) were achieved via a simple synthetic route. The molecules of NE4IBA in the crystal form one-dimensional double chains with strong hydrogen bonding and weak I...I halogen interactions, while NE4EBA forms two-dimensional hydrogen-bonded layers, including acetylene moieties engaging in C-H...O interactions within a rigid planar layer packing arrangement. Intermolecular N-H...O interactions between the amide groups dominate in both crystal structures. The strong exothermal effect of acetylene-group polymerization was detected immediately after melting NE4EBA using a simultaneous thermal analysis.</p>","PeriodicalId":7115,"journal":{"name":"Acta Crystallographica Section C Structural Chemistry","volume":" ","pages":"736-742"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145627671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ekaterina D Tselukovskaya, Pavel V Dorovatovskii, Anna V Vologzhanina
{"title":"Chloride salts of the antibacterial agent pazufloxacin: (H<sub>3</sub>O)<sub>2</sub>(Pzfx)<sub>5</sub>Cl<sub>7</sub>·10H<sub>2</sub>O and (Pzfx)Cl·1.75H<sub>2</sub>O·0.5C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>5</sub>OH.","authors":"Ekaterina D Tselukovskaya, Pavel V Dorovatovskii, Anna V Vologzhanina","doi":"10.1107/S2053229625010423","DOIUrl":"10.1107/S2053229625010423","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Recrystallization of pazufloxacinium mesylate from HCl solutions yielded two previously unknown salts of pazufloxacin. These were characterized by X-ray diffraction and are bis(oxidanium) pentakis[(2S)-6-(1-azaniumylcyclopropyl)-7-fluoro-2-methyl-10-oxo-4-oxa-1-azatricyclo[7.3.1.0<sup>5,13</sup>]trideca-5(13),6,8,11-tetraene-11-carboxylic acid] heptachloride decahydrate, 2H<sub>3</sub>O<sup>+</sup>·5C<sub>16</sub>H<sub>16</sub>FN<sub>2</sub>O<sub>4</sub><sup>+</sup>·7Cl<sup>-</sup>·10H<sub>2</sub>O (1), and (2S)-6-(1-azaniumylcyclopropyl)-7-fluoro-2-methyl-10-oxo-4-oxa-1-azatricyclo[7.3.1.0<sup>5,13</sup>]trideca-5(13),6,8,11-tetraene-11-carboxylic acid chloride ethanol hemisolvate 1.75-hydrate, C<sub>16</sub>H<sub>16</sub>FN<sub>2</sub>O<sub>4</sub><sup>+</sup>·Cl<sup>-</sup>·0.5C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>6</sub>O·1.75H<sub>2</sub>O (2), which were obtained from acetonitrile and ethanol, respectively. The compounds crystallize in the noncentrosymmetric triclinic space group P1. Salt 1 contains five independent cations and seven chloride anions, while compound 2 contains eight independent cations and anions. In both, an intramolecular COOH...O=C hydrogen bond is present and the amino group is protonated. The cations, anions and solvent molecules form extensive hydrogen-bonded frameworks. In addition, in both structures, the cations are packed into infinite stacks via π-π interactions, with interplanar distances of approximately 3.2 Å.</p>","PeriodicalId":7115,"journal":{"name":"Acta Crystallographica Section C Structural Chemistry","volume":" ","pages":"728-735"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145627500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effect of the size of halide ligands on the crystal structures of halide-bibridged polymers of HgX<sub>2</sub> with 4-ethylpyridine.","authors":"B M Parveen Beebeejaun-Boodoo","doi":"10.1107/S2053229625009702","DOIUrl":"10.1107/S2053229625009702","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Halide-bridged polymers are a type of coordination polymer whereby halide ligands act as bridging ligands between the metal centres. The crystal structures of three halide-bibridged polymers of the formula [Hg(μ-X)<sub>2</sub>(4-Etpy)]<sub>n</sub>, namely, catena-poly[[(4-ethylpyridine)mercury(II)]-di-μ-halido], obtained through the combination of the organic ligand 4-ethylpyridine (4-Etpy, C<sub>7</sub>H<sub>9</sub>N) and HgX<sub>2</sub> (X = Cl, Br or I), were determined. In these structures, abbreviated as 4epHgCl, 4epHgBr and 4epHgI, respectively, the Hg<sup>II</sup> ion exhibits a coordination number of five. All three structures were found to display a similar one-dimensional scalloped polymeric chain with halide ligands bridging pairs of Hg<sup>II</sup> ions in a bidentate fashion; however, 4epHgI differs from the other two structures in terms of the packing arrangement of the polymer. The change of the halide ligand to the larger iodide ligand disrupts the formation of the regular halide-bibridged polymeric chain observed in the chloride and bromide analogues, with 4epHgI displaying pseudo-bridging in the polymer chain.</p>","PeriodicalId":7115,"journal":{"name":"Acta Crystallographica Section C Structural Chemistry","volume":" ","pages":"680-686"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12805918/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145487425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lina Mardiana, Afnan B Al Abdali, Michael J Hall, Hamad H Al Mamari, Paul G Waddell
{"title":"Weak hydrogen bonding in the structures of three double-acylated aminoantipyrines.","authors":"Lina Mardiana, Afnan B Al Abdali, Michael J Hall, Hamad H Al Mamari, Paul G Waddell","doi":"10.1107/S2053229625009581","DOIUrl":"10.1107/S2053229625009581","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The structures of three doubly-acylated 4-aminoantipyrine (AP) compounds where the aryl substituent is varied are reported and analysed in terms of their relative conformation, intermolecular interactions and overall packing; these are N-(1,5-dimethyl-3-oxo-2-phenyl-2,3-dihydro-1H-pyrazol-4-yl)-4-methyl-N-[(4-methylphenyl)carbonyl]benzamide, C<sub>27</sub>H<sub>25</sub>N<sub>3</sub>O<sub>3</sub>, N-(1,5-dimethyl-3-oxo-2-phenyl-2,3-dihydro-1H-pyrazol-4-yl)-N-[(furan-2-yl)carbonyl]furan-2-carboxamide, C<sub>21</sub>H<sub>17</sub>N<sub>3</sub>O<sub>5</sub>, and N-(1,5-dimethyl-3-oxo-2-phenyl-2,3-dihydro-1H-pyrazol-4-yl)-N-[(thiophen-2-yl)carbonyl]thiophene-2-carboxamide, C<sub>21</sub>H<sub>17</sub>N<sub>3</sub>O<sub>3</sub>S<sub>2</sub>. The compounds were crystallized using the encapsulated nanodroplet crystallization (ENaCt) protocol. Where previous singly-acylated AP compounds produced structures with obvious classical hydrogen-bonding motifs, the doubly-acylated derivatives lack classical donors and therefore exhibit weak C-H hydrogen bonds and interactions involving the π-system. All three AP compounds form bifurcated C-H...O interactions having either dimer or chain motifs, with the other structure-directing interactions being dependant on the nature of the aryl substituent.</p>","PeriodicalId":7115,"journal":{"name":"Acta Crystallographica Section C Structural Chemistry","volume":" ","pages":"687-693"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12810325/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145487407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rui De Xue, Juan Chen, Lin Li, Wen Wei Chen, Jian Ping Guo, Sheng Di Bai, Fangfang Pan
{"title":"A binuclear lithium complex based on an ansa-bis(1-azaallyl) ligand: synthesis, structure and catalysis for ring-opening polymerization of ϵ-caprolactone.","authors":"Rui De Xue, Juan Chen, Lin Li, Wen Wei Chen, Jian Ping Guo, Sheng Di Bai, Fangfang Pan","doi":"10.1107/S2053229625009933","DOIUrl":"10.1107/S2053229625009933","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Deprotonation of the Schiff base 2,6-dimethyl-N-(1-phenylethylidene)aniline, C<sub>16</sub>H<sub>17</sub>N or [MeC(Ph)=N(2,6-Me<sub>2</sub>C<sub>6</sub>H<sub>3</sub>)], 1, with one equivalent of lithium diisopropylamide (LDA) and subsequent reaction with half an equivalent of SiPh<sub>2</sub>Cl<sub>2</sub> gave a new diimine, N-[2-({2-[(2,6-dimethylphenyl)imino]-2-phenylethyl}diphenylsilyl)-1-phenylethylidene]-2,6-dimethylaniline, C<sub>44</sub>H<sub>42</sub>N<sub>2</sub>Si, 2. Further treatment of 2 with LDA in the presence of tetrahydrofuran (THF) yielded the target binuclear ansa-bis(1-azaallyl) lithium compound {μ-N-[2-({2-[(2,6-dimethylphenyl)azanidyl]-2-phenylethyl}diphenylsilyl)-1-phenylethylidene]-2,6-dimethylanilinido}bis[(tetrahydrofuran)lithium], [Li<sub>2</sub>(C<sub>44</sub>H<sub>40</sub>N<sub>2</sub>Si)(C<sub>4</sub>H<sub>8</sub>O)<sub>2</sub>], 3. Both 2 and 3 were characterized by <sup>1</sup>H and <sup>13</sup>C NMR spectroscopy and elemental analysis, and the structures of 1, 2 and 3 were confirmed by X-ray crystallography. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations were carried out for compounds 1-3. In addition, the catalytic properties of 3 towards the ring-opening polymerization of ϵ-caprolactone were investigated and the compound showed good catalytic activity.</p>","PeriodicalId":7115,"journal":{"name":"Acta Crystallographica Section C Structural Chemistry","volume":" ","pages":"710-717"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145547573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sizwe J Zamisa, Adesola A Adeleke, Dunesha Naicker, Holger B Friedrich, Bernard Omondi
{"title":"Structural insights into transition-metal-aminodiphosphine (PNP) complexes bearing [MCl<sub>n</sub>(PNP)<sub>2</sub>] (M = Co, Ru, Cr or Mo; n = 1 or 2) cores in the solid state.","authors":"Sizwe J Zamisa, Adesola A Adeleke, Dunesha Naicker, Holger B Friedrich, Bernard Omondi","doi":"10.1107/S2053229625009519","DOIUrl":"10.1107/S2053229625009519","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The molecular structures of two novel cobalt aminodiphosphine (PNP) complexes (1 and 2) are reported, namely, bis[bis(diphenylphosphanyl)(pentyl)amine-κ<sup>2</sup>P,P']chloridocobalt(III) di-μ-chlorido-bis[dichloridocobalt(II)], [CoCl(C<sub>29</sub>H<sub>31</sub>NP<sub>2</sub>)<sub>2</sub>][Co<sub>2</sub>Cl<sub>6</sub>], and bis[bis(diphenylphosphanyl)(propan-2-yl)amine-κ<sup>2</sup>P,P']chloridocobalt(III) di-μ-chlorido-bis[dichloridocobalt(II)], [CoCl(C<sub>27</sub>H<sub>27</sub>NP<sub>2</sub>)<sub>2</sub>][Co<sub>2</sub>Cl<sub>6</sub>], featuring variation in the N-atom substituent, i.e. n-pentyl in complex 1 and isopropyl in complex 2. The asymmetric unit of complex 1 contains a five-coordinated cationic [CoCl{κ<sup>2</sup>-P,P-(N)-C<sub>5</sub>H<sub>11</sub>}<sub>2</sub>]<sup>2+</sup> species and a [Co<sub>2</sub>(μ<sub>2</sub>-Cl)<sub>2</sub>Cl<sub>4</sub>]<sup>2-</sup> anion, while complex 2 includes a five-coordinated cation [CoCl{κ<sup>2</sup>-P,P-(N)-C<sub>3</sub>H<sub>7</sub>}<sub>2</sub>], half a [Co<sub>2</sub>(μ<sub>2</sub>-Cl)<sub>2</sub>Cl<sub>4</sub>]<sup>2-</sup> anion, and disordered diethyl ether and dichloromethane solvent molecules. The impact of ligand-induced strain, particularly due to the small bite angles of the PNP aminodiphosphine ligands, was examined in the context of geometric constraints and their influence on stability and reactivity. A Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) survey, along with a noncovalent interaction (NCI) analysis of the analogous [TMCl<sub>n</sub>(PNP)<sub>2</sub>] (where TM = transition metal and n = 1 or 2) core, revealed an inverse correlation between P-TM-P bite angles and N...TM contact distances. This correlation is attributed to the influence of the van der Waals radius of the metal: smaller metals allow wider bite angles and stronger N...TM contacts, whereas larger metals favour narrower bite angles and longer N...TM distances. NCI analysis indicated significant steric repulsion at the TM...N contacts, reflecting strain imposed by ligand geometry. A comparison of sign(λ<sub>2</sub>)ρ eigenvalues suggests that Mo-P bonds exhibit weaker attractive interactions relative to Co-P and Ru-P bonds, with Cr-P bonds being the weakest. These findings provide pointers to structural and electronic factors governing coordination in PNP-ligated transition-metal complexes, offering rational design and catalytic and material applications.</p>","PeriodicalId":7115,"journal":{"name":"Acta Crystallographica Section C Structural Chemistry","volume":" ","pages":"694-701"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12810352/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145487412","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shaydel M Purcell, Eric W Reinheimer, Jamie S Ritch
{"title":"Structures and electronic properties of cobalt(II) selone coordination complexes.","authors":"Shaydel M Purcell, Eric W Reinheimer, Jamie S Ritch","doi":"10.1107/S2053229625010101","DOIUrl":"10.1107/S2053229625010101","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The structural chemistry of selenourea ligands is quite diverse, though examples of their coordination to cobalt are rare. In this study, the solid-state structures of the selenourea 1,3-diethylimidazole-2-selone, C<sub>7</sub>H<sub>12</sub>N<sub>2</sub>Se, and the cobalt complexes dichloridobis(1,3-diethylimidazole-2-selone-κSe)cobalt(II), [CoCl<sub>2</sub>(C<sub>7</sub>H<sub>12</sub>N<sub>2</sub>Se)<sub>2</sub>] (1), and dichloridobis(1,3-diisopropylimidazole-2-selone-κSe)cobalt(II), [CoCl<sub>2</sub>(C<sub>9</sub>H<sub>16</sub>N<sub>2</sub>Se)<sub>2</sub>] (2), are presented. Two crystallization methods for the coordination complexes are utilized. The structures of complexes 1 and 2 are compared with the few existing examples in the literature, revealing a similar trend for terminal binding modes, rather than bridging modes which are often seen for late d-block metal complexes. Density functional theory calculations reveal a trend in cobalt-selenium bond strengths for 1,3-dialkyl-substituted imidazole-2-selones of Me ≃ Et < <sup>i</sup>Pr.</p>","PeriodicalId":7115,"journal":{"name":"Acta Crystallographica Section C Structural Chemistry","volume":" ","pages":"718-722"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12810353/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145601702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Steven P Kelley, Appasaheb K Nirpal, Shyam Sathyamoorthi
{"title":"Single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis and mechanistic implications of (2R*,3R*)-2-(2-phenoxyethyl)tetrahydrofuran-3-yl acetate.","authors":"Steven P Kelley, Appasaheb K Nirpal, Shyam Sathyamoorthi","doi":"10.1107/S2053229625010150","DOIUrl":"10.1107/S2053229625010150","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Our laboratory recently explored a highly stereospecific rearrangement of epoxides into tetrahydrofurans. To unambiguously determine the stereochemical outcome of this rearrangement, single crystals of one of the products, (2R*,3R*)-2-(2-phenoxyethyl)tetrahydrofuran-3-yl acetate, C<sub>14</sub>H<sub>18</sub>O<sub>4</sub>, were grown and analyzed. Based on the crystal structure data, we were able to show that the contiguous stereocenters of this molecule are in a syn configuration, and we now suggest with confidence a plausible mechanism for the rearrangement reaction. The syn configuration of the ring may also account for the inability of most members of this class to crystallize, as it imparts a kink in the structure reminiscent of low-melting unsaturated fatty acids.</p>","PeriodicalId":7115,"journal":{"name":"Acta Crystallographica Section C Structural Chemistry","volume":" ","pages":"723-727"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12776534/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145601743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"MgNi<sub>2</sub>B<sub>6</sub> as a new representative of the CeCr<sub>2</sub>B<sub>6</sub> structure type.","authors":"Nazar Pavlyuk, Alina Bondaruk, Grygoriy Dmytriv, Andrij Stetskiv, Beata Rozdzynska-Kielbik, Volodymyr Pavlyuk","doi":"10.1107/S2053229625008940","DOIUrl":"10.1107/S2053229625008940","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The ternary boride MgNi<sub>2</sub>B<sub>6</sub> (magnesium dinickel hexaboride) crystallizes as a new representative of the CeCr<sub>2</sub>B<sub>6</sub> structure type. The Mg and Ni atoms occupy sites with mmm and mm2 symmetry, respectively. The B atoms occupy two sites with m.. and m2m symmetry. The 14-membered polyhedron around the Mg atom is a hexagonal prism, with two adjacent lateral faces centred by Mg atoms. The Ni atoms are encapsulated in 10-vertex polyhedra. The trigonal prismatic coordination is typical for both B atoms. The electronic structure was calculated by the tight-binding linear muffin-tin orbital atomic spheres approximation (TB-LMTO-ASA) method. The electron concentration is higher around the B atoms, which form eight-membered channels along b, which are filled with Mg and Ni atoms. The maximum hydrogen absorption is up to 2.38 wt% H<sub>2</sub>.</p>","PeriodicalId":7115,"journal":{"name":"Acta Crystallographica Section C Structural Chemistry","volume":" ","pages":"666-670"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145375649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kaycee Anoliefo, Kaitlyn Brown, Lana K Hiscock, Paul D Boyle, Louise N Dawe
{"title":"Structural adaptability and hydrogen bonding in a dissymmetric pyrimidine thioether ligand.","authors":"Kaycee Anoliefo, Kaitlyn Brown, Lana K Hiscock, Paul D Boyle, Louise N Dawe","doi":"10.1107/S205322962500823X","DOIUrl":"10.1107/S205322962500823X","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Dissymmetric ligands have garnered interest due to their ability to simultaneously coordinate to multiple different acceptors. Herein, we report the synthesis of a dissymmetric thioether N,N'-bidentate ligand, namely, 2-[(6-chloropyrimidin-4-yl)sulfanyl]pyrimidine-4,6-diamine (C<sub>8</sub>H<sub>7</sub>ClN<sub>6</sub>S, L1), along with its hydrated form (C<sub>8</sub>H<sub>7</sub>ClN<sub>6</sub>S·H<sub>2</sub>O). In addition, we describe the structure of a nitrate salt of the protonated ligand {4,6-diamino-2-[(6-chloropyrimidin-4-yl)sulfanyl]pyrimidin-1-ium nitrate, C<sub>8</sub>H<sub>8</sub>ClN<sub>6</sub>S<sup>+</sup>·NO<sub>3</sub><sup>-</sup>} and a cobalt(II) complex of L1 (dichlorido{2-[(6-chloropyrimidin-4-yl-κN<sup>3</sup>)sulfanyl]pyrimidine-4,6-diamine-κN<sup>3</sup>}cobalt(II), [CoCl<sub>2</sub>(C<sub>8</sub>H<sub>7</sub>ClN<sub>6</sub>S)]). The structures of all four compounds were determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and Hirshfeld surface analyses were performed. These analyses reveal unengaged hydrogen-bond donors and acceptors in both the neutral ligand and its water solvate, while protonation or metal coordination induces a conformational change that enables full engagement of hydrogen-bond donors. These structural insights have implications for the molecular design of ligands in ion-sensing applications.</p>","PeriodicalId":7115,"journal":{"name":"Acta Crystallographica Section C Structural Chemistry","volume":" ","pages":"598-606"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12587320/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145231210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}