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February 2008  

Received 16 December 2007
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Key indicators
Single-crystal X-ray study
T = 298 K
Mean [sigma](C-C) = 0.002 Å
R = 0.040
wR = 0.122
Data-to-parameter ratio = 18.2
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9-n-Butyl-9,9'-bi[9H-fluorene]

Shu-Qiang Yu,a Bin-Bin Hua and Ping Lua*

aDepartment of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Yuquan Campus, Hangzhou, 310027, People's Republic of China
Correspondence e-mail: pinglu@zju.edu.cn

In the title compound, C30H26, the dihedral angle between the two fluorene ring systems is 61.75 (4)°.

Related literature

For general background, see: Muller et al. (2003[Muller, C. D., Falcou, A., Reckefuss, N., Rojahn, M., Wiederhirn, V., Rudati, P., Frohne, H., Nuyken, O., Becker, H. & Meerholz, K. (2003). Nature (London), 421, 829-833.]); Murahashi & Moritani (1967[Murahashi, S. & Moritani, I. (1967). Tetrahedron, 23, 3631-3643.]).

[Scheme 1]

Experimental

Crystal data

  • C30H26

  • Mr = 386.51

  • Monoclinic, C 2/c

  • a = 27.164 (5) Å

  • b = 8.6369 (17) Å

  • c = 19.232 (4) Å

  • [beta] = 104.28 (3)°

  • V = 4372.7 (15) Å3

  • Z = 8

  • Mo K[alpha] radiation

  • [mu] = 0.07 mm-1

  • T = 298 (2) K

  • 0.46 × 0.38 × 0.35 mm
Data collection

  • Bruker SMART 1000 CCD area-detector diffractometer

  • Absorption correction: none

  • 20365 measured reflections

  • 4970 independent reflections

  • 2859 reflections with I > 2[sigma](I)

  • Rint = 0.031
Refinement

  • R[F2 > 2[sigma](F2)] = 0.039

  • wR(F2) = 0.122

  • S = 1.06

  • 4970 reflections

  • 273 parameters

  • H-atom parameters constrained

  • [Delta][rho]max = 0.18 e Å-3

  • [Delta][rho]min = -0.14 e Å-3

Data collection: SMART (Bruker, 2001[Bruker (2001). SMART and SAINT. Bruker AXS Inc., Madison, Wisconsin, USA.]); cell refinement: SAINT (Bruker, 2001[Bruker (2001). SMART and SAINT. Bruker AXS Inc., Madison, Wisconsin, USA.]); data reduction: SAINT; program(s) used to solve structure: SHELXTL (Sheldrick, 2008[Sheldrick, G. M. (2008). Acta Cryst. A64, 112-122.]); program(s) used to refine structure: SHELXTL; molecular graphics: SHELXTL; software used to prepare material for publication: SHELXTL and publCIF (Westrip, 2008[Westrip, S. P. (2008). publCIF. In preparation.]).

Supplementary data and figures for this paper are available from the IUCr electronic archives (Reference: XU2394 ).

Acknowledgements

The authors thank the National Natural Science Foundation of China (20674070) and the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province (R404109).

References

Bruker (2001). SMART and SAINT. Bruker AXS Inc., Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
Muller, C. D., Falcou, A., Reckefuss, N., Rojahn, M., Wiederhirn, V., Rudati, P., Frohne, H., Nuyken, O., Becker, H. & Meerholz, K. (2003). Nature (London), 421, 829-833.  [ISI] [CrossRef] [PubMed]
Murahashi, S. & Moritani, I. (1967). Tetrahedron, 23, 3631-3643.  [CrossRef] [ChemPort]
Sheldrick, G. M. (2008). Acta Cryst. A64, 112-122.  [CrossRef] [details]
Westrip, S. P. (2008). publCIF. In preparation.

Acta Cryst (2008). E64, o490  [ doi:10.1107/S1600536808001517 ]

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