Acta Cryst. (2007). B63, 485-496 [ doi:10.1107/S0108768107018034 ]
Abstract: `Bridge-flipped' isomers may be defined as pairs of molecules related by a reversal of a bridge of atoms connecting two major parts of the individual molecules. This kind of isomerism is commonly found among benzylideneanilines and phenylhydrazones. Isostructural pairs might be suitable for co-crystallization and are thus useful in the preparation of new solid materials. Although most of the examples of bridge-flipped isomeric benzylideneanilines and phenylhydrazones in the crystallographic literature are not isostructural, a small number of isostructural pairs have been reported by previous workers. This paper describes the molecular and crystal structures of four pairs of bridge-flipped isomers: two isostructural phenylhydrazones, (E)-2-bromobenzaldehyde 4-cyanophenylhydrazone (I) and (E)-4-cyanobenzaldehyde 2-bromophenylhydrazone (II); two pairs of isostructural benzylideneanilines, N-(2-trifluoromethylbenzylidene)-2-methylaniline (III) and N-(2-methylbenzylidene)-2-trifluoromethylaniline (IV), and N-(2-bromobenzylidene)-2-methylaniline (V) and N-(2-methylbenzylidene)-2-bromoaniline (VI); and a pair of benzylideneanilines with closely similar unit-cell dimensions but different packing arrangements, N-(4-methylbenzylidene)-4-cyanoaniline (VII) and N-(4-cyanobenzylidene)-4-methylaniline (VIII). The structure of (V) is disordered. The packing arrangement of (VIII) resembles that of the chloro-/methyl-substituted benzylideneanilines MBZCLA/MBZCLB [N-(4-methylbenzylidene)-4-chloroaniline and N-(4-chlorobenzylidene)-4-methylaniline]. Although intermolecular hydrogen bonding plays a part in the isostructuralism of the two phenylhydrazones, the other examples of isostructuralism occur in the absence of similar, relatively strong intermolecular interactions.
Keywords: `bridge-flipped' isomers; isostructuralism; benzylideneanilines; phenylhydrazones; packing.
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