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This paper studies the crystal structure of new substituted light-sensitive azomethine N-oxides (nitrones): C-2′-(o-oxyphenyl)vinyl-N-p-methylphenyl nitrone (1), C-2′-(2″-oxy-5″-bromophenyl)vinyl-N-p-methylphenyl nitrone (2), C-2′-(2″-oxy-5″-bromophenyl)-vinyl-N-phenyl nitrone (3), and C-2′-(o-oxyphenyl)vinyl-N-methyl nitrone (4). In contrast to the compounds studied earlier [1, 2], C-2′-(β-oxy-α-naphthyl)vinyl-N-p-methylphenyl nitrone (5), C-2′-(β-oxy-α-naphthyl)vinyl-N-phenyl nitrone (6), C-2′-(o-oxyphenyl) vinyl-N-phenyl nitrone (7), and C-2′-(o-oxyphenyl)vinyl-N-p-bromophenyl nitrone (8), the nitrones studies in this work have anti-rather than syn-orientations of the nitrone and hydroxyl groups. Due to this spatial arrangement of the proton-donating hydroxyl and proton-accepting nitrone groups, molecules in crystals 1–4 are bonded by intermolecular hydrogen bonds (IHB) to form chains but not centrosymmetric dimeric associates (CDA). Two types of chain arrangements were revealed: “head-to-tail” and “head-to-tail, tail-to-head”. It is shown that the introduction of an alkyl substituent instead of an aryl one at the nitrogen atom of the nitrone group in 4 leads to a change in the geometry of the IHB in the H-associate. It is proven that the hydroxyl proton can undergo an intermolecular O→O transfer in the chain of hydrogen bonds in crystals 1–4, which can give rise to photochemical transformations in these crystals.
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Institute of Chemical Physics in Chernogolovka, Russian Academy of Sciences. Translated fromZhurnal Strukturnoi Khimii, Vol. 37, No. 2, pp. 349–362, March–April, 1996.
Translated by L. Smolina
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Utenyshev, A.N., Aldoshin, S.M. Formation of intermolecular hydrogen bonds in light-sensitive crystals of C-2′-(o-oxyphenyl)vinyl-N-p-methylphenyl nitrone, C-2′-(2″-oxy-5″-bromophenyl)vinyl-N-p-methylphenyl nitrone, C-2′-(2″-oxy-5″-bromophenyl)-vinyl-N-phenyl nitrone, and C-2′-(o-oxyphenyl)vinyl-n-methyl nitrone. J Struct Chem 37, 305–317 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02591061
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02591061