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Volume 68 
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July 2012  

Received 28 March 2012
Accepted 27 April 2012
Online 13 June 2012

Key indicators
Single-crystal X-ray study
T = 295 K
Mean [sigma](C-C) = 0.004 Å
R = 0.056
wR = 0.152
Data-to-parameter ratio = 12.3
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3,3,5,5-Tetramethyl-r-2,c-6-diphenylpiperidin-4-one

aDepartment of Chemistry, Annamalai University, Annamalai Nagar 608 002, Tamil Nadu, India
Correspondence e-mail: chitragovi12@gmail.com

The piperidone ring of the title compound, C21H25NO, adopts a chair conformation with the two phenyl groups equatorially oriented and cis to each other. In the crystal, molecules are linked by weak N-H...O hydrogen bonds, forming chains parallel to [100].

Related literature

For some bioactive properties of piperidones, see: Mobio et al. (1989[Mobio, I. G., Soldatenkov, A. T., Federov, V. O., Ageev, E. A., Sergeeva, N. D., Lin, S., Stashenko, E. E., Prostakov, N. S. & Andreeva, E. I. (1989). Khim. Farm. Zh. 23, 421-427.]). For piperidone ring conformations in related compounds, see: Parthiban et al. (2008[Parthiban, P., Ramkumar, V., Kumar, N. A., Kim, J. S. & Jeong, Y. T. (2008). Acta Cryst. E64, o1631.]); Lakshminarayana et al. (2009[Lakshminarayana, B. N., Shashidhara Prasad, J., Gnanendra, C. R., Sridhar, M. A. & Naik, N. (2009). Acta Cryst. E65, o1001.]); Ravichandran et al. (2010[Ravichandran, K., Ramesh, P., Jeganathan, P., Ponnuswamy, S. & Ponnuswamy, M. N. (2010). Acta Cryst. E66, o276-o277.]). For the synthesis, see: Noller & Baliah (1948[Noller, C. R. & Baliah, V. (1948). J. Am. Chem. Soc. 70, 3853-3855.]). For ring puckering parameters, see: Nardelli (1983[Nardelli, M. (1983). Acta Cryst. C39, 1141-1142.]); Cremer & Pople (1975[Cremer, D. & Pople, J. A. (1975). J. Am. Chem. Soc. 97, 1354-1358.]).

[Scheme 1]

Experimental

Crystal data
  • C21H25NO

  • Mr = 307.42

  • Triclinic, [P \overline 1]

  • a = 6.9227 (11) Å

  • b = 11.540 (2) Å

  • c = 12.472 (2) Å

  • [alpha] = 64.771 (4)°

  • [beta] = 80.755 (5)°

  • [gamma] = 72.675 (4)°

  • V = 859.8 (3) Å3

  • Z = 2

  • Mo K[alpha] radiation

  • [mu] = 0.07 mm-1

  • T = 295 K

  • 0.30 × 0.25 × 0.20 mm

Data collection
  • Bruker Kappa APEXII CCD diffractometer

  • Absorption correction: multi-scan (SADABS; Bruker, 2004[Bruker (2004). APEX2 and SAINT-Plus and XPREP. Bruker AXS Inc., Madison, Wisconsin, USA.]) Tmin = 0.919, Tmax = 0.986

  • 12752 measured reflections

  • 2659 independent reflections

  • 2123 reflections with I > 2[sigma](I)

  • Rint = 0.032

  • [theta]max = 24.0°

Refinement
  • R[F2 > 2[sigma](F2)] = 0.056

  • wR(F2) = 0.152

  • S = 1.15

  • 2659 reflections

  • 217 parameters

  • H atoms treated by a mixture of independent and constrained refinement

  • [Delta][rho]max = 0.23 e Å-3

  • [Delta][rho]min = -0.18 e Å-3

Table 1
Hydrogen-bond geometry (Å, °)

D-H...A D-H H...A D...A D-H...A
N1-H1A...O1i 0.94 (3) 2.39 (3) 3.258 (3) 153 (2)
Symmetry code: (i) x-1, y, z.

Data collection: APEX2 (Bruker, 2004[Bruker (2004). APEX2 and SAINT-Plus and XPREP. Bruker AXS Inc., Madison, Wisconsin, USA.]); cell refinement: APEX2 and SAINT-Plus (Bruker, 2004[Bruker (2004). APEX2 and SAINT-Plus and XPREP. Bruker AXS Inc., Madison, Wisconsin, USA.]); data reduction: SAINT-Plus and XPREP (Bruker, 2004[Bruker (2004). APEX2 and SAINT-Plus and XPREP. Bruker AXS Inc., Madison, Wisconsin, USA.]); program(s) used to solve structure: SIR92 (Altomare et al., 1993[Altomare, A., Cascarano, G., Giacovazzo, C. & Guagliardi, A. (1993). J. Appl. Cryst. 26, 343-350.]); program(s) used to refine structure: 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.]) and Mercury (Macrae et al., 2008[Macrae, C. F., Bruno, I. J., Chisholm, J. A., Edgington, P. R., McCabe, P., Pidcock, E., Rodriguez-Monge, L., Taylor, R., van de Streek, J. & Wood, P. A. (2008). J. Appl. Cryst. 41, 466-470.]); software used to prepare material for publication: PLATON (Spek, 2009[Spek, A. L. (2009). Acta Cryst. D65, 148-155.]).


Supplementary data and figures for this paper are available from the IUCr electronic archives (Reference: LR2058 ).


Acknowledgements

The authors thank the SAIF, IIT Madras, for the X- ray data collection.

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Acta Cryst (2012). E68, o2097  [ doi:10.1107/S1600536812018983 ]

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