organic compounds
N-(2-Methoxy-6-oxo-1,6-dihydropyrimidin-4-yl)formamide: hydrogen-bonded sheets of centrosymmetric R22(8) and R64(28) rings
aDepartamento de Química Inorgánica y Orgánica, Universidad de Jaén, 23071 Jaén, Spain, bDepartment of Chemistry, University of Aberdeen, Meston Walk, Old Aberdeen AB24 3UE, Scotland, and cSchool of Chemistry, University of St Andrews, Fife KY16 9ST, Scotland
*Correspondence e-mail: cg@st-andrews.ac.uk
Molecules of the title compound, C6H7N3O3, are linked into sheets of centrosymmetric R22(8) and R64(28) rings by two nearly linear N—H⋯O hydrogen bonds [H⋯O = 1.91 and 1.98 Å, N⋯O = 2.786 (3) and 2.862 (3) Å, and N—H⋯O = 175 and 177°].
Comment
With the aim of preparing intermediates for the synthesis of new fused pyrimidines, we have applied the formylation procedure using formic acetic anhydride to the preparation of 5-formylpyrimidine derivatives (Negrillo et al., 1988), but when 6-amino-2-methoxypyrimidin-4(3H)-one was used as starting material, the title compound, (I) (Fig. 1), was obtained selectively in 73% yield. We report here the molecular and supramolecular structure of (I).
The bond distances within the pyrimidinone ring of (I) (Table 1) provide clear evidence of strong bond fixation. Thus, the N1—C2 bond is very much shorter than any of the C2—N3, N3—C4, N1—C6 or C6—N6 bonds, and the C5—C6 bond is very much shorter than the C4—C5 bond. However, the exocyclic C4—O4 bond is significantly longer than the formyl C61—O6 bond, even though N3—C4 is somewhat longer than N6—C61. This may be connected with the disorder of the H atom bonded to N6, which appears to be spread over a range of N—H distances. The disorder was modelled using two sites for this H atom, one adjacent to N6 with occupancy 0.73 (5) and the other almost midway along an intermolecular N⋯H⋯O contact with occupancy 0.27 (5). At each of C2, C4 and C6, the two exocyclic bond angles are markedly different, with the maximum difference of nearly 10° at C2. With the exception of the methyl H atoms, the entire molecule is effectively planar.
The supramolecular aggregation is very simple, depending upon just two N—H⋯O hydrogen bonds, both involving the same amidic atom O4 as the acceptor, and both of them almost linear (Table 2). It is striking that atom O4 forms the longer of the two amidic C—O bonds and that neither formyl atom O6 nor methoxy atom O2 acts as an acceptor of hydrogen bonds. The overall supramolecular aggregation is not affected by the partial disorder of H6.
The formation of the two-dimensional supramolecular structure is readily analysed in terms of a centrosymmetric dimer unit as the basic building block. Ring atom N3 in the molecule at (x, y, z) acts as hydrogen-bond donor to amidic atom O4 in the molecule at (1 − x, 1 − y, 1 − z), so forming a centrosymmetric R22(8) (Bernstein et al., 1995) dimer centred at (, , ) (Fig. 2). Exocyclic atoms N6 in the molecules at (x, y, z) and (1 − x, 1 − y, 1 − z), which form the dimer centred at (, , ), act as donors to atoms O4 in the molecules at ( − x, − + y, − z) and ( + x, − y, + z), respectively, which themselves form parts of the R22(8) dimers centred at (0, 0, 0) and (1, 1, 1), respectively. Similarly, atoms O4 in the molecules at (x, y, z) and (1 − x, 1 − y, 1 − z) accept hydrogen bonds from atoms N6 in the molecules at ( − x, + y, − z) and ( + x, − y, + z), which themselves form parts of the dimers centred at (0, 1, 0) and (1, 0, 1), respectively. Propagation of these two hydrogen bonds then generates a (10) sheet built of centrosymmetric R22(8) and R64(28) rings (Fig. 3). There are no direction-specific interactions between adjacent sheets.
Experimental
6-Amino-2-methoxypyrimidin-4(3H)-one (1.41 g, 10 mmol) was added to a mixture of formic acid (1.33 ml, 40 mmol) and acetic anhydride (4 ml, 40 mmol) and the mixture was heated under reflux for 90 min. The mixed solvents were removed under reduced pressure to give an orange solid, which was recrystallized from ethanol (400 ml) to give a microcrystalline yellow solid. Yellow needles of (I) suitable for single-crystal X-ray diffraction were grown from a solution in dimethyl sulfoxide (yield 73%). Accurate mass by MS (IE 70 eV): m/z found 169.0482, C6H7N3O3 requires 169.0487.
Crystal data
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Data collection
Refinement
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The P21/n was uniquely assigned from the All H atoms were located in difference maps. H atoms bonded to C atoms were treated as riding atoms, with C—H distances of 0.95 (aromatic and formyl) or 0.98 Å (methyl) and with Uiso(H) = 1.2 or 1.5Ueq(C). The H atom bonded to N3 was permitted to ride at the distance deduced from difference maps (0.88 Å), with Uiso(H) = 1.2Ueq(N). The H atom formally bonded to N6 was found to be disordered over two sites, one adjacent to N6 and denoted H6 and the other, denoted H6A, approximately midway between N6 and atom O4 of a neighbouring molecule at ( − x, − + y, − z). The coordinates of these two sites were initially refined with the occupancies tied to sum to unity; in the final cycles of their positions were fixed, with Uiso(H) = 1.2Ueq(N6). The site occupancies for H6 and H6A refined to 0.73 (5) and 0.27 (5), respectively. A difference map calculated with these two sites, H6 and H6A, omitted shows an extended ridge of electron density between these two sites, possibly suggesting a very large amplitude motion of this H atom.
Data collection: COLLECT (Nonius, 1999); cell DIRAX (Duisenberg, 1992); data reduction: EVALCCD (Duisenberg et al., 2003); program(s) used to solve structure: SIR97 (Altomare et al., 1999); program(s) used to refine structure: OSCAIL (McArdle, 2003) and SHELXL97 (Sheldrick, 1997); molecular graphics: PLATON (Spek, 2003); software used to prepare material for publication: SHELXL97 and PRPKAPPA (Ferguson, 1999).
Supporting information
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6-Amino-2-methoxypyrimid-4(3H)-one (1.41 g, 10 mmol) was added to a mixture of formic acid (1.33 ml, 40 mmol) and acetic anhydride (4 ml, 40 mmol) and the mixture was heated under reflux for 90 min. The mixed solvents were removed under reduced pressure to give an orange solid, which was recrystallized from ethanol (400 ml) to give a microcrystalline yellow solid. Yellow needles of (I) suitable for single-crystal X-ray diffraction were grown from a solution in dimethyl sulfoxide (yield 73%). Accurate mass by MS (IE 70 eV): m/z found 169.0482, C6H7N3O3 requires 169.0487.
The
P21/n was uniquely assigned from the All H atoms were located in difference maps. H atoms bonded to C atoms were treated as riding atoms, with C—H distances of 0.95 (aromatic and formyl) or 0.98 Å (methyl) and with Uiso(H) = 1.2 or 1.5Ueq(C). The H atom bonded to N3 was permitted to ride at the distance deduced from difference maps (0.88 Å), with Uiso(H) = 1.2Ueq(N). The H atom formally bonded to N6 was found to be disordered over two sites, one adjacent to N6 and denoted H6 and the other, denoted H6A, approximately midway between N6 and atom O4 of a neighbouring molecule at (1/2 − x, −1/2 + y, 1/2 − z). The coordinates of these two sites were initially refined with the occupancies tied to sum to unity; in the final cycles of their positions were fixed, with Uiso(H) = 1.2Ueq(N6). The site occupancies for H6 and H6A refined to 0.73 (5) and 0.27 (5), respectively. A difference map calculated with these two sites, H6 and H6A, omitted shows an extended ridge of electron density between these two sites, possibly suggesting a very large amplitude motion of this H atom.Data collection: COLLECT (Nonius, 1999); cell
DIRAX (Duisenberg, 1992); data reduction: EVALCCD (Duisenberg et al., 2003); program(s) used to solve structure: SIR97 (Altomare et al., 1999; program(s) used to refine structure: OSCAIL (McArdle, 2003) and SHELXL97 (Sheldrick, 1997); molecular graphics: PLATON (Spek, 2003); software used to prepare material for publication: SHELXL97 and PRPKAPPA (Ferguson, 1999).C6H7N3O3 | F(000) = 352 |
Mr = 169.15 | Dx = 1.578 Mg m−3 |
Monoclinic, P21/n | Mo Kα radiation, λ = 0.71073 Å |
Hall symbol: -P 2yn | Cell parameters from 1627 reflections |
a = 7.0515 (7) Å | θ = 5.0–27.5° |
b = 9.0031 (12) Å | µ = 0.13 mm−1 |
c = 11.237 (2) Å | T = 120 K |
β = 93.690 (11)° | Block, colourless |
V = 711.91 (17) Å3 | 0.33 × 0.14 × 0.11 mm |
Z = 4 |
Nonius KappaCCD area-detector diffractometer | 905 reflections with I > 2σ(I) |
CCD rotation images, thick slices scans | Rint = 0.067 |
Absorption correction: multi-scan (EVALCCD; Duisenberg et al., 2003) | θmax = 27.5°, θmin = 5.0° |
Tmin = 0.962, Tmax = 0.986 | h = −8→9 |
9104 measured reflections | k = −11→11 |
1627 independent reflections | l = −14→14 |
Refinement on F2 | Primary atom site location: structure-invariant direct methods |
Least-squares matrix: full | Secondary atom site location: difference Fourier map |
R[F2 > 2σ(F2)] = 0.051 | Hydrogen site location: inferred from neighbouring sites |
wR(F2) = 0.147 | H-atom parameters constrained |
S = 1.11 | w = 1/[σ2(Fo2) + (0.0612P)2 + 0.3784P] where P = (Fo2 + 2Fc2)/3 |
1627 reflections | (Δ/σ)max < 0.001 |
110 parameters | Δρmax = 0.41 e Å−3 |
0 restraints | Δρmin = −0.39 e Å−3 |
C6H7N3O3 | V = 711.91 (17) Å3 |
Mr = 169.15 | Z = 4 |
Monoclinic, P21/n | Mo Kα radiation |
a = 7.0515 (7) Å | µ = 0.13 mm−1 |
b = 9.0031 (12) Å | T = 120 K |
c = 11.237 (2) Å | 0.33 × 0.14 × 0.11 mm |
β = 93.690 (11)° |
Nonius KappaCCD area-detector diffractometer | 1627 independent reflections |
Absorption correction: multi-scan (EVALCCD; Duisenberg et al., 2003) | 905 reflections with I > 2σ(I) |
Tmin = 0.962, Tmax = 0.986 | Rint = 0.067 |
9104 measured reflections |
R[F2 > 2σ(F2)] = 0.051 | 0 restraints |
wR(F2) = 0.147 | H-atom parameters constrained |
S = 1.11 | Δρmax = 0.41 e Å−3 |
1627 reflections | Δρmin = −0.39 e Å−3 |
110 parameters |
x | y | z | Uiso*/Ueq | Occ. (<1) | |
N1 | 0.3014 (3) | 0.0726 (2) | 0.55912 (17) | 0.0187 (5) | |
C2 | 0.3736 (3) | 0.1943 (3) | 0.6021 (2) | 0.0171 (6) | |
O2 | 0.4187 (2) | 0.21160 (19) | 0.71744 (14) | 0.0221 (5) | |
C21 | 0.3896 (4) | 0.0828 (3) | 0.7918 (2) | 0.0236 (6) | |
N3 | 0.4128 (3) | 0.3157 (2) | 0.53714 (17) | 0.0183 (5) | |
C4 | 0.3762 (3) | 0.3182 (3) | 0.4151 (2) | 0.0181 (6) | |
O4 | 0.4137 (2) | 0.43389 (18) | 0.35866 (14) | 0.0212 (5) | |
C5 | 0.2965 (3) | 0.1873 (3) | 0.3653 (2) | 0.0180 (6) | |
C6 | 0.2627 (3) | 0.0717 (3) | 0.4385 (2) | 0.0170 (6) | |
N6 | 0.1828 (3) | −0.0589 (2) | 0.39260 (17) | 0.0187 (5) | |
C61 | 0.1397 (4) | −0.1787 (3) | 0.4596 (2) | 0.0205 (6) | |
O6 | 0.0661 (3) | −0.29016 (19) | 0.41713 (15) | 0.0268 (5) | |
H21A | 0.4277 | 0.1066 | 0.8750 | 0.035* | |
H21B | 0.4664 | −0.0002 | 0.7654 | 0.035* | |
H21C | 0.2550 | 0.0549 | 0.7852 | 0.035* | |
H3 | 0.4625 | 0.3946 | 0.5734 | 0.022* | |
H5 | 0.2668 | 0.1800 | 0.2819 | 0.022* | |
H6 | 0.1525 | −0.0644 | 0.3156 | 0.022* | 0.73 (5) |
H6A | 0.1241 | −0.0700 | 0.2616 | 0.022* | 0.27 (5) |
H61 | 0.1684 | −0.1749 | 0.5433 | 0.025* |
U11 | U22 | U33 | U12 | U13 | U23 | |
N1 | 0.0206 (11) | 0.0190 (12) | 0.0160 (11) | −0.0007 (9) | −0.0013 (8) | −0.0012 (9) |
C2 | 0.0160 (13) | 0.0187 (14) | 0.0164 (12) | 0.0017 (11) | 0.0005 (10) | −0.0007 (10) |
O2 | 0.0306 (10) | 0.0214 (10) | 0.0138 (9) | −0.0033 (8) | −0.0016 (7) | 0.0011 (7) |
C21 | 0.0305 (15) | 0.0242 (15) | 0.0160 (13) | −0.0019 (12) | 0.0011 (11) | 0.0025 (11) |
N3 | 0.0239 (12) | 0.0152 (12) | 0.0156 (11) | −0.0028 (9) | −0.0012 (9) | −0.0003 (8) |
C4 | 0.0161 (13) | 0.0218 (14) | 0.0165 (12) | 0.0012 (11) | 0.0022 (10) | 0.0005 (11) |
O4 | 0.0290 (10) | 0.0166 (10) | 0.0178 (9) | −0.0028 (8) | −0.0009 (7) | 0.0022 (7) |
C5 | 0.0205 (14) | 0.0194 (14) | 0.0136 (12) | −0.0001 (11) | −0.0016 (10) | −0.0001 (10) |
C6 | 0.0146 (13) | 0.0210 (14) | 0.0155 (12) | 0.0030 (11) | 0.0000 (9) | −0.0027 (11) |
N6 | 0.0249 (12) | 0.0164 (12) | 0.0147 (10) | −0.0010 (10) | 0.0001 (8) | −0.0014 (9) |
C61 | 0.0249 (14) | 0.0198 (15) | 0.0170 (13) | 0.0017 (12) | 0.0040 (11) | −0.0005 (11) |
O6 | 0.0339 (11) | 0.0208 (11) | 0.0256 (10) | −0.0061 (9) | 0.0022 (8) | −0.0030 (8) |
N1—C2 | 1.289 (3) | N6—C61 | 1.361 (3) |
C2—N3 | 1.353 (3) | C61—O6 | 1.213 (3) |
N3—C4 | 1.379 (3) | C21—H21A | 0.98 |
C4—C5 | 1.406 (3) | C21—H21B | 0.98 |
C5—C6 | 1.357 (3) | C21—H21C | 0.98 |
C6—N1 | 1.365 (3) | N3—H3 | 0.88 |
C2—O2 | 1.324 (3) | C5—H5 | 0.95 |
O2—C21 | 1.452 (3) | N6—H6 | 0.88 |
C4—O4 | 1.257 (3) | N6—H6A | 1.51 |
C6—N6 | 1.389 (3) | C61—H61 | 0.95 |
C2—N1—C6 | 115.2 (2) | N3—C4—C5 | 115.3 (2) |
N1—C2—O2 | 122.1 (2) | C6—C5—C4 | 118.9 (2) |
N1—C2—N3 | 125.1 (2) | C6—C5—H5 | 120.6 |
O2—C2—N3 | 112.8 (2) | C4—C5—H5 | 120.6 |
C2—O2—C21 | 115.79 (19) | C5—C6—N1 | 124.4 (2) |
O2—C21—H21A | 109.5 | C5—C6—N6 | 120.4 (2) |
O2—C21—H21B | 109.5 | N1—C6—N6 | 115.1 (2) |
H21A—C21—H21B | 109.5 | C61—N6—C6 | 124.4 (2) |
O2—C21—H21C | 109.5 | C61—N6—H6 | 116.8 |
H21A—C21—H21C | 109.5 | C6—N6—H6 | 118.7 |
H21B—C21—H21C | 109.5 | C61—N6—H6A | 115.5 |
C2—N3—C4 | 121.2 (2) | C6—N6—H6A | 119.9 |
C2—N3—H3 | 119.4 | O6—C61—N6 | 122.9 (2) |
C4—N3—H3 | 119.4 | O6—C61—H61 | 118.5 |
O4—C4—N3 | 118.9 (2) | N6—C61—H61 | 118.5 |
O4—C4—C5 | 125.8 (2) | ||
C6—N1—C2—O2 | −179.9 (2) | N3—C4—C5—C6 | −0.1 (3) |
C6—N1—C2—N3 | −0.4 (4) | C4—C5—C6—N1 | −0.2 (4) |
N1—C2—O2—C21 | 2.6 (3) | C4—C5—C6—N6 | 179.5 (2) |
N3—C2—O2—C21 | −176.9 (2) | C2—N1—C6—C5 | 0.4 (4) |
N1—C2—N3—C4 | 0.2 (4) | C2—N1—C6—N6 | −179.3 (2) |
O2—C2—N3—C4 | 179.7 (2) | C5—C6—N6—C61 | −178.2 (2) |
C2—N3—C4—O4 | 179.5 (2) | N1—C6—N6—C61 | 1.5 (3) |
C2—N3—C4—C5 | 0.1 (3) | C6—N6—C61—O6 | 178.4 (2) |
O4—C4—C5—C6 | −179.5 (2) |
D—H···A | D—H | H···A | D···A | D—H···A |
N3—H3···O4i | 0.88 | 1.91 | 2.786 (3) | 175 |
N6—H6···O4ii | 0.88 | 1.98 | 2.862 (3) | 177 |
N6—H6A···O4ii | 1.51 | 1.36 | 2.862 (3) | 173 |
Symmetry codes: (i) −x+1, −y+1, −z+1; (ii) −x+1/2, y−1/2, −z+1/2. |
Experimental details
Crystal data | |
Chemical formula | C6H7N3O3 |
Mr | 169.15 |
Crystal system, space group | Monoclinic, P21/n |
Temperature (K) | 120 |
a, b, c (Å) | 7.0515 (7), 9.0031 (12), 11.237 (2) |
β (°) | 93.690 (11) |
V (Å3) | 711.91 (17) |
Z | 4 |
Radiation type | Mo Kα |
µ (mm−1) | 0.13 |
Crystal size (mm) | 0.33 × 0.14 × 0.11 |
Data collection | |
Diffractometer | Nonius KappaCCD area-detector diffractometer |
Absorption correction | Multi-scan (EVALCCD; Duisenberg et al., 2003) |
Tmin, Tmax | 0.962, 0.986 |
No. of measured, independent and observed [I > 2σ(I)] reflections | 9104, 1627, 905 |
Rint | 0.067 |
(sin θ/λ)max (Å−1) | 0.650 |
Refinement | |
R[F2 > 2σ(F2)], wR(F2), S | 0.051, 0.147, 1.11 |
No. of reflections | 1627 |
No. of parameters | 110 |
H-atom treatment | H-atom parameters constrained |
Δρmax, Δρmin (e Å−3) | 0.41, −0.39 |
Computer programs: COLLECT (Nonius, 1999), DIRAX (Duisenberg, 1992), EVALCCD (Duisenberg et al., 2003), SIR97 (Altomare et al., 1999, OSCAIL (McArdle, 2003) and SHELXL97 (Sheldrick, 1997), PLATON (Spek, 2003), SHELXL97 and PRPKAPPA (Ferguson, 1999).
N1—C2 | 1.289 (3) | C2—O2 | 1.324 (3) |
C2—N3 | 1.353 (3) | O2—C21 | 1.452 (3) |
N3—C4 | 1.379 (3) | C4—O4 | 1.257 (3) |
C4—C5 | 1.406 (3) | C6—N6 | 1.389 (3) |
C5—C6 | 1.357 (3) | N6—C61 | 1.361 (3) |
C6—N1 | 1.365 (3) | C61—O6 | 1.213 (3) |
N1—C6—N6—C61 | 1.5 (3) | C6—N6—C61—O6 | 178.4 (2) |
D—H···A | D—H | H···A | D···A | D—H···A |
N3—H3···O4i | 0.88 | 1.91 | 2.786 (3) | 175 |
N6—H6···O4ii | 0.88 | 1.98 | 2.862 (3) | 177 |
Symmetry codes: (i) −x+1, −y+1, −z+1; (ii) −x+1/2, y−1/2, −z+1/2. |
Acknowledgements
The X-ray data were collected at the Servicios Técnicos de Investigación, University of Jaén. JT, MN and JC thank the Consejería de Educación y Ciencia (Junta de Andalucía, Spain) and the Universidad de Jaén for financial support.
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With the aim of preparing intermediates for the synthesis of new fused pyrimidines, we have applied the formylation procedure using formic acetic anhydride to the preparation of 5-formylpyrimidine derivatives (Negrillo et al., 1988), but when 6-amino-2-methoxypyrimid-4(3H)-one was used as starting material, the title compound, (I) (Fig. 1), was obtained selectively in 73% yield. We report here the molecular and supramolecular structure of (I).
The bond distances within the pyrimidinone ring of (I) (Table 1) provide clear evidence of strong bond fixation. Thus, the N1—C2 bond is very much shorter than any of the C2—N3, N3—C4, N1—C6 or C6—N6 bonds, and the C5—C6 bond is very much shorter than the C4—C5 bond. However, the exocyclic C4—O4 bond is significantly longer than the formyl C61—O6 bond, even though N3—C4 is somewhat longer than N6—C61. This may be connected with the disorder of the H atom bonded to N6, which appears to be spread over a range of N—H distances. The disorder was modelled using two sites for this H atom, one adjacent to N6 with occupancy 0.73 (5) and the other almost midway along an intermolecular N···H···O contact, with occupancy 0.27 (5). At each of C2, C4 and C6, the two exocyclic bond angles are markedly different, with the maximum difference of nearly 10° at C2. With the exception of the methyl H atoms, the entire molecule is effectively planar.
The supramolecular aggregation is very simple, depending upon just two N—H···O hydrogen bonds, both involving the same amidic atom O4 as the acceptor, and both of them almost linear (Table 2). It is striking that atom O4 forms the longer of the two amidic C—O bonds and that neither the formyl atom O6 nor the methoxy atom O2 acts as an acceptor of hydrogen bonds. The overall supramolecular aggregation is not affected by the partial disorder of H6.
The formation of the two-dimensional supramolecular structure is readily analysed in terms of a centrosymmetric dimer unit as the basic building block. Ring atom N3 in the molecule at (x, y, z) acts as hydrogen-bond donor to amidic atom O4 in the molecule at (1 − x, 1 − y, 1 − z), so forming a centrosymmetric R22(8) (Bernstein et al., 1995) dimer centred at (1/2, 1/2, 1/2) (Fig. 2). Exocyclic atoms N6 in the molecules at (x, y, z) and (1 − x, 1 − y, 1 − z), which form the dimer centred at (1/2, 1/2, 1/2), act as donors to atoms O4 in the molecules at (1/2 − x, −1/2 + y, 1/2 − z) and (1/2 + x, 3/2 − y, 1/2 + z), respectively, which themselves form parts of the R22(8) dimers centred at (0, 0, 0) and (1, 1, 1), respectively. Similarly, atoms O4 in the molecules at (x, y, z) and (1 − x, 1 − y, 1 − z) accept hydrogen bonds from atoms N6 in the molecules at (1/2 − x, 1/2 + y, 1/2 − z) and (1/2 + x, 1/2 − y, 1/2 + z), which themselves form parts of the dimers centred at (0, 1, 0) and (1, 0, 1), respectively. Propagation of these two hydrogen bonds then generates a (101) sheet built of centrosymmetric R22(8) and R46(28) rings (Fig. 3). There are no direction-specific interactions between adjacent sheets.