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Volume 64 
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July 2008  

Received 19 May 2008
Accepted 29 May 2008
Online 7 June 2008

Key indicators
Single-crystal X-ray study
T = 293 K
Mean [sigma](C-C) = 0.002 Å
Disorder in main residue
R = 0.055
wR = 0.155
Data-to-parameter ratio = 14.5
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2-(4,5,6,7,8,9-Hexahydro-6a-azaphenylen-2-ylmethylene)indan-1,3-dione

aLatvian Institute of Organic Synthesis, Riga LV 1006, Latvia, and bDepartment of Materials Science and Applied Chemistry, Riga Technical University, LV 1046, Latvia
Correspondence e-mail: serg@osi.lv

The title compound, C22H19NO2, has potential for use as a new nonlinear optical material. Molecules are almost planar. One C atom of the heterocyclic ring system is disordered over two positions; the site occupancy factors are 0.6 and 0.4.

Related literature

For related literature, see: Honda et al. (1996[Honda, T., Fujii, I., Hirayama, N., Aoyama, N. & Miike, A. (1996). Acta Cryst. C52, 364-365.]); Allen (2002[Allen, F. H. (2002). Acta Cryst. B58, 380-388.]).

[Scheme 1]

Experimental

Crystal data
  • C22H19NO2

  • Mr = 329.38

  • Monoclinic, P 21 /n

  • a = 8.5125 (2) Å

  • b = 19.2973 (5) Å

  • c = 10.4969 (3) Å

  • [beta] = 109.5301 (10)°

  • V = 1625.10 (7) Å3

  • Z = 4

  • Mo K[alpha] radiation

  • [mu] = 0.09 mm-1

  • T = 293 (2) K

  • 0.26 × 0.19 × 0.04 mm

Data collection
  • Nonius KappaCCD diffractometer

  • Absorption correction: none

  • 6190 measured reflections

  • 3685 independent reflections

  • 2852 reflections with I > 2[sigma](I)

  • Rint = 0.021

Refinement
  • R[F2 > 2[sigma](F2)] = 0.055

  • wR(F2) = 0.155

  • S = 1.01

  • 3685 reflections

  • 255 parameters

  • H-atom parameters constrained

  • [Delta][rho]max = 0.27 e Å-3

  • [Delta][rho]min = -0.39 e Å-3

Data collection: KappaCCD Server Software (Nonius, 1999[Nonius (1999). KappaCCD Server Software. Nonius BV, Delft, The Netherlands.]); cell refinement: KappaCCD Server Software; data reduction: DENZO and SCALEPACK (Otwinowski & Minor, 1997[Otwinowski, Z. & Minor, W. (1997). Methods in Enzymology, Vol. 276, Macromolecular Crystallography, Part A, edited by C. W. Carter Jr & R. M. Sweet, pp. 307-326. New York: Academic Press.]); program(s) used to solve structure: maXus (Mackay et al., 1999[Mackay, S., Gilmore, C. J., Edwards, C., Stewart, N. & Shankland, K. (1999). maXus. Bruker-Nonius, Delft, The Netherlands, MacScience, Yokohama, Japan, and The University of Glasgow, Scotland.]) and SIR92 (Altomare et al., 1994[Altomare, A., Cascarano, G., Giacovazzo, C., Guagliardi, A., Burla, M. C., Polidori, G. & Camalli, M. (1994). J. Appl. Cryst. 27, 435.]); program(s) used to refine structure: maXus and SHELXL97 (Sheldrick, 2008[Sheldrick, G. M. (2008). Acta Cryst. A64, 112-122.]); molecular graphics: ORTEP-3 (Farrugia, 1997[Farrugia, L. J. (1997). J. Appl. Cryst. 30, 565.]); software used to prepare material for publication: SHELXL97.


Supplementary data and figures for this paper are available from the IUCr electronic archives (Reference: RK2090 ).


Acknowledgements

The authors acknowledge financial support from the Latvian Council of Science.

References

Allen, F. H. (2002). Acta Cryst. B58, 380-388.  [ISI] [CrossRef] [details]
Altomare, A., Cascarano, G., Giacovazzo, C., Guagliardi, A., Burla, M. C., Polidori, G. & Camalli, M. (1994). J. Appl. Cryst. 27, 435.  [CrossRef] [details]
Farrugia, L. J. (1997). J. Appl. Cryst. 30, 565.  [CrossRef] [details]
Honda, T., Fujii, I., Hirayama, N., Aoyama, N. & Miike, A. (1996). Acta Cryst. C52, 364-365.  [CrossRef] [details]
Mackay, S., Gilmore, C. J., Edwards, C., Stewart, N. & Shankland, K. (1999). maXus. Bruker-Nonius, Delft, The Netherlands, MacScience, Yokohama, Japan, and The University of Glasgow, Scotland.
Nonius (1999). KappaCCD Server Software. Nonius BV, Delft, The Netherlands.
Otwinowski, Z. & Minor, W. (1997). Methods in Enzymology, Vol. 276, Macromolecular Crystallography, Part A, edited by C. W. Carter Jr & R. M. Sweet, pp. 307-326. New York: Academic Press.
Sheldrick, G. M. (2008). Acta Cryst. A64, 112-122.  [CrossRef] [details]


Acta Cryst (2008). E64, o1200  [ doi:10.1107/S1600536808016346 ]

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