organic compounds
Bis(1-tosyl-2-pyrrolyl)ethyne
aDepartment of Chemistry, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-1804, USA
*Correspondence e-mail: ffroncz@lsu.edu
The title molecule, C24H20N2O4S2, has crystallographic inversion symmetry with a triple-bond distance of 1.206 (2) Å. The alkyne is not quite linear, with a C—C≡C angle of 175.78 (16)°. The planar pyrrole rings are parallel but offset from coplanarity by 0.318 (1) Å. The conformation of the sulfonyl group with respect to the pyrrole ring is such that an O atom is nearly eclipsed with this ring, having an O—S—N—C torsion angle of 3.48 (11)°. C—H⋯O interactions [C⋯O 3.278 (2) Å, 136° about H] between pyrrole H and sulfonyl O atoms lead to the formation of ladder-like chains.
Related literature
For related structures, see Abell et al. (1998); Knight et al. (2003); Tanui et al. (2008). For related literature, see: Vogel (1996); Chinchilla & Najera (2007); Desiraju & Steiner (1999).
Experimental
Crystal data
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Refinement
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Data collection: COLLECT (Nonius, 2000); cell HKL SCALEPACK (Otwinowski & Minor, 1997); data reduction: HKL DENZO (Otwinowski & Minor, 1997) and HKL SCALEPACK; program(s) used to solve structure: SIR97 (Altomare et al., 1999); program(s) used to refine structure: SHELXL97 (Sheldrick, 1997); molecular graphics: ORTEP-3 for Windows (Farrugia, 1997); software used to prepare material for publication: SHELXL97.
Supporting information
https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600536807062964/tk2223sup1.cif
contains datablocks global, I. DOI:Structure factors: contains datablock I. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600536807062964/tk2223Isup2.hkl
To a 50 ml round bottom flask was added 2-bromo-1-tosyl-pyrrole (0.3 g, 1 mmol) followed by Pd(PPh)2Cl2(0.042 g, 0.06 mmol) and CuI (0.038 g 0.2 mmol). The flask was sealed and placed in a dry ice bath under N2. Trimethylsilanylethyne (0.072 ml, 0.5 mmol), DBU (0.9 ml, 6 mmol) and water (0.0072 ml, 40 molar equiv.) were dissolved in benzene (5 ml) and added to the reaction flask. After the mixture froze in a dry ice bath, the flask was evacuated and N2 gas added. The resulting reaction mixture was allowed to warm slowly to room temperature and was stirred until complete disappearance of the starting material, by TLC. The reaction mixture was worked up by adding ethyl acetate (100 ml), and washing the organic layer three times with saline. The organic phase was dried over anhydrous sodium bicarbonate and concentrated under reduced pressure. The crude mixture was purified by flash δ): 7.9 (4H, B, CH), 7.4 (4H, B, CH), 7.3 (2H, B, CH), 6.7 (2H, B, CH), 6.3 (2H, B, CH), 2.4 (6H, S, CH3). MS (EI) m/z: 465.0939 (M+). M.P.: 459 K.
using hexane/ethyl acetate (5:1) for elution. The bispyrrole-ethyne (I) was obtained in 8.4% yield (0.0194 g) and recrystallized from dichloromethane to afford colorless crystals. 1H NMR (250 MHz, CDCl3, 293 K,H atoms were placed in idealized positions with C—H distances 0.95–0.98 Å and thereafter treated as riding. Uiso for H was assigned as 1.2xUeq of the attached C atoms (1.5 for methyl). A torsional parameter was refined for the methyl group.
Bis(1-tosyl-pyrrol-2-yl)ethyne (I) is an important intermediate in the synthesis of porphyrin analogues containing a two-carbon interpyrrolic bridge such as in corrphycene (Vogel, 1996). Compound (I) was prepared by an improved Sonogashira coupling reaction (Chinchilla & Najera, 2007) between 2-bromo-1-tosyl-pyrrole and ethyne-trimethylsilane in the presence of Pd(0) and Cu(I) catalysts at room temperature, see Experimental.
The molecule lies about an inversion center. The pyrrole rings are experimentally planar, but offset 0.318 (1) Å from co-planarity, because of the deviation from linearity of the C—C≡C—C group. Pyrrole-H atoms form intermolecular C—H···O interactions (Desiraju & Steiner, 1999) with sulfonate-O, C···O 3.278 (2) Å and angle of 136° about H. Thes einteractions lead to the formation of ladder-like chains along the [001] direction, Fig. 2.
The structures of related tosylpyrroles, i.e. 2-bromo-N-(p-toluenesulfonyl)pyrrole (Abell et al., 1998) and 2-chloromethyl-1-(4-methylphenylsulfonyl)pyrrole (Knight et al., 2003) have been reported. A similar compound containing the bis(2-pyrrolyl)ethyne core (Tanui et al., 2008) lies on a twofold axis rather than an inversion center, and has its pyrrole groups twisted by 40.49 (4)° from co-planarity.
For related structures, see Abell et al. (1998); Knight et al. (2003); Tanui et al. (2008). For related literature, see: Vogel (1996); Chinchilla & Najera (2007); Desiraju & Steiner (1999).
Data collection: COLLECT (Nonius, 2000); cell
HKL SCALEPACK (Otwinowski & Minor 1997); data reduction: HKL DENZO (Otwinowski & Minor 1997) and HKL SCALEPACK (Otwinowski & Minor 1997); program(s) used to solve structure: SIR97 (Altomare et al., 1999); program(s) used to refine structure: SHELXL97 (Sheldrick, 1997); molecular graphics: ORTEP-3 for Windows (Farrugia, 1997); software used to prepare material for publication: SHELXL97 (Sheldrick, 1997).C24H20N2O4S2 | F(000) = 484 |
Mr = 464.54 | Dx = 1.458 Mg m−3 |
Monoclinic, P21/c | Mo Kα radiation, λ = 0.71073 Å |
Hall symbol: -P 2ybc | Cell parameters from 3246 reflections |
a = 8.5127 (15) Å | θ = 2.5–32.5° |
b = 16.822 (2) Å | µ = 0.29 mm−1 |
c = 7.5311 (11) Å | T = 90 K |
β = 101.049 (7)° | Fragment, colorless |
V = 1058.5 (3) Å3 | 0.35 × 0.30 × 0.12 mm |
Z = 2 |
Nonius KappaCCD (with Oxford Cryostream) diffractometer | 3565 independent reflections |
Radiation source: fine-focus sealed tube | 2995 reflections with I > 2σ(I) |
Graphite monochromator | Rint = 0.019 |
ω scans with κ offsets | θmax = 32.6°, θmin = 2.7° |
Absorption correction: multi-scan (HKL SCALEPACK; Otwinowski & Minor 1997) | h = −12→12 |
Tmin = 0.896, Tmax = 0.966 | k = −20→24 |
16546 measured reflections | l = −11→11 |
Refinement on F2 | Secondary atom site location: difference Fourier map |
Least-squares matrix: full | Hydrogen site location: inferred from neighbouring sites |
R[F2 > 2σ(F2)] = 0.037 | H-atom parameters constrained |
wR(F2) = 0.100 | w = 1/[σ2(Fo2) + (0.0457P)2 + 0.5421P] where P = (Fo2 + 2Fc2)/3 |
S = 1.05 | (Δ/σ)max < 0.001 |
3565 reflections | Δρmax = 0.39 e Å−3 |
147 parameters | Δρmin = −0.54 e Å−3 |
0 restraints | Extinction correction: SHELXL97 (Sheldrick, 1997), Fc*=kFc[1+0.001xFc2λ3/sin(2θ)]-1/4 |
Primary atom site location: structure-invariant direct methods | Extinction coefficient: 0.0087 (19) |
C24H20N2O4S2 | V = 1058.5 (3) Å3 |
Mr = 464.54 | Z = 2 |
Monoclinic, P21/c | Mo Kα radiation |
a = 8.5127 (15) Å | µ = 0.29 mm−1 |
b = 16.822 (2) Å | T = 90 K |
c = 7.5311 (11) Å | 0.35 × 0.30 × 0.12 mm |
β = 101.049 (7)° |
Nonius KappaCCD (with Oxford Cryostream) diffractometer | 3565 independent reflections |
Absorption correction: multi-scan (HKL SCALEPACK; Otwinowski & Minor 1997) | 2995 reflections with I > 2σ(I) |
Tmin = 0.896, Tmax = 0.966 | Rint = 0.019 |
16546 measured reflections |
R[F2 > 2σ(F2)] = 0.037 | 0 restraints |
wR(F2) = 0.100 | H-atom parameters constrained |
S = 1.05 | Δρmax = 0.39 e Å−3 |
3565 reflections | Δρmin = −0.54 e Å−3 |
147 parameters |
Geometry. All e.s.d.'s (except the e.s.d. in the dihedral angle between two l.s. planes) are estimated using the full covariance matrix. The cell e.s.d.'s are taken into account individually in the estimation of e.s.d.'s in distances, angles and torsion angles; correlations between e.s.d.'s in cell parameters are only used when they are defined by crystal symmetry. An approximate (isotropic) treatment of cell e.s.d.'s is used for estimating e.s.d.'s involving l.s. planes. |
Refinement. Refinement of F2 against ALL reflections. The weighted R-factor wR and goodness of fit S are based on F2, conventional R-factors R are based on F, with F set to zero for negative F2. The threshold expression of F2 > σ(F2) is used only for calculating R-factors(gt) etc. and is not relevant to the choice of reflections for refinement. R-factors based on F2 are statistically about twice as large as those based on F, and R- factors based on ALL data will be even larger. |
x | y | z | Uiso*/Ueq | ||
S1 | 0.17966 (3) | 0.588570 (17) | 0.18361 (4) | 0.01389 (9) | |
O1 | 0.03490 (11) | 0.62987 (6) | 0.10845 (12) | 0.0205 (2) | |
O2 | 0.21216 (11) | 0.51113 (5) | 0.12117 (12) | 0.01826 (19) | |
N1 | 0.17450 (12) | 0.58026 (6) | 0.40533 (13) | 0.01363 (19) | |
C1 | 0.04720 (14) | 0.60559 (7) | 0.48222 (16) | 0.0155 (2) | |
H1 | −0.0438 | 0.6342 | 0.4222 | 0.019* | |
C2 | 0.07578 (14) | 0.58208 (7) | 0.65906 (16) | 0.0159 (2) | |
H2 | 0.0083 | 0.5915 | 0.7437 | 0.019* | |
C3 | 0.22451 (15) | 0.54103 (7) | 0.69389 (15) | 0.0154 (2) | |
H3 | 0.2736 | 0.5181 | 0.8061 | 0.018* | |
C4 | 0.28522 (14) | 0.54024 (7) | 0.53683 (15) | 0.0135 (2) | |
C5 | 0.43438 (14) | 0.51145 (7) | 0.50710 (15) | 0.0143 (2) | |
C6 | 0.34514 (14) | 0.64976 (7) | 0.17831 (15) | 0.0141 (2) | |
C7 | 0.33400 (15) | 0.73131 (7) | 0.20914 (16) | 0.0169 (2) | |
H7 | 0.2372 | 0.7541 | 0.2306 | 0.020* | |
C8 | 0.46788 (16) | 0.77829 (7) | 0.20758 (17) | 0.0187 (2) | |
H8 | 0.4622 | 0.8338 | 0.2286 | 0.022* | |
C9 | 0.61100 (15) | 0.74548 (8) | 0.17564 (16) | 0.0183 (2) | |
C10 | 0.61811 (15) | 0.66412 (8) | 0.14272 (16) | 0.0172 (2) | |
H10 | 0.7143 | 0.6414 | 0.1193 | 0.021* | |
C11 | 0.48522 (14) | 0.61580 (7) | 0.14388 (15) | 0.0151 (2) | |
H11 | 0.4903 | 0.5604 | 0.1214 | 0.018* | |
C12 | 0.75453 (18) | 0.79796 (9) | 0.1772 (2) | 0.0262 (3) | |
H12A | 0.8386 | 0.7676 | 0.1351 | 0.039* | |
H12B | 0.7946 | 0.8170 | 0.3005 | 0.039* | |
H12C | 0.7238 | 0.8435 | 0.0968 | 0.039* |
U11 | U22 | U33 | U12 | U13 | U23 | |
S1 | 0.01179 (14) | 0.01874 (15) | 0.01119 (13) | −0.00136 (10) | 0.00237 (9) | 0.00013 (9) |
O1 | 0.0125 (4) | 0.0318 (5) | 0.0161 (4) | 0.0012 (4) | 0.0001 (3) | 0.0038 (4) |
O2 | 0.0202 (4) | 0.0203 (4) | 0.0152 (4) | −0.0047 (3) | 0.0056 (3) | −0.0036 (3) |
N1 | 0.0112 (4) | 0.0182 (5) | 0.0119 (4) | 0.0008 (3) | 0.0032 (3) | 0.0007 (3) |
C1 | 0.0121 (5) | 0.0191 (5) | 0.0164 (5) | 0.0016 (4) | 0.0051 (4) | 0.0000 (4) |
C2 | 0.0140 (5) | 0.0188 (5) | 0.0160 (5) | 0.0004 (4) | 0.0060 (4) | −0.0012 (4) |
C3 | 0.0150 (5) | 0.0186 (5) | 0.0136 (5) | 0.0005 (4) | 0.0051 (4) | 0.0003 (4) |
C4 | 0.0123 (5) | 0.0160 (5) | 0.0122 (5) | 0.0006 (4) | 0.0028 (4) | 0.0000 (4) |
C5 | 0.0141 (5) | 0.0173 (5) | 0.0118 (4) | 0.0001 (4) | 0.0032 (4) | 0.0012 (4) |
C6 | 0.0133 (5) | 0.0174 (5) | 0.0117 (5) | −0.0011 (4) | 0.0028 (4) | 0.0017 (4) |
C7 | 0.0178 (5) | 0.0179 (5) | 0.0151 (5) | 0.0020 (4) | 0.0029 (4) | 0.0012 (4) |
C8 | 0.0239 (6) | 0.0159 (5) | 0.0159 (5) | −0.0012 (4) | 0.0030 (4) | 0.0015 (4) |
C9 | 0.0185 (6) | 0.0211 (6) | 0.0146 (5) | −0.0052 (4) | 0.0017 (4) | 0.0034 (4) |
C10 | 0.0138 (5) | 0.0214 (6) | 0.0166 (5) | −0.0004 (4) | 0.0038 (4) | 0.0037 (4) |
C11 | 0.0154 (5) | 0.0161 (5) | 0.0141 (5) | 0.0003 (4) | 0.0039 (4) | 0.0017 (4) |
C12 | 0.0254 (7) | 0.0283 (7) | 0.0256 (6) | −0.0114 (5) | 0.0062 (5) | 0.0019 (5) |
S1—O2 | 1.4298 (10) | C6—C11 | 1.3907 (17) |
S1—O1 | 1.4333 (10) | C6—C7 | 1.3977 (17) |
S1—N1 | 1.6845 (10) | C7—C8 | 1.3888 (18) |
S1—C6 | 1.7513 (12) | C7—H7 | 0.9500 |
N1—C1 | 1.3900 (15) | C8—C9 | 1.3997 (19) |
N1—C4 | 1.4016 (15) | C8—H8 | 0.9500 |
C1—C2 | 1.3656 (17) | C9—C10 | 1.3945 (18) |
C1—H1 | 0.9500 | C9—C12 | 1.5056 (18) |
C2—C3 | 1.4218 (17) | C10—C11 | 1.3944 (17) |
C2—H2 | 0.9500 | C10—H10 | 0.9500 |
C3—C4 | 1.3786 (16) | C11—H11 | 0.9500 |
C3—H3 | 0.9500 | C12—H12A | 0.9800 |
C4—C5 | 1.4164 (16) | C12—H12B | 0.9800 |
C5—C5i | 1.206 (2) | C12—H12C | 0.9800 |
O2—S1—O1 | 121.17 (6) | C11—C6—S1 | 119.01 (9) |
O2—S1—N1 | 107.09 (5) | C7—C6—S1 | 119.51 (9) |
O1—S1—N1 | 104.35 (5) | C8—C7—C6 | 118.37 (11) |
O2—S1—C6 | 108.71 (6) | C8—C7—H7 | 120.8 |
O1—S1—C6 | 109.91 (6) | C6—C7—H7 | 120.8 |
N1—S1—C6 | 104.20 (5) | C7—C8—C9 | 121.32 (12) |
C1—N1—C4 | 108.98 (9) | C7—C8—H8 | 119.3 |
C1—N1—S1 | 123.92 (8) | C9—C8—H8 | 119.3 |
C4—N1—S1 | 126.76 (8) | C10—C9—C8 | 119.11 (11) |
C2—C1—N1 | 108.07 (10) | C10—C9—C12 | 120.93 (12) |
C2—C1—H1 | 126.0 | C8—C9—C12 | 119.96 (12) |
N1—C1—H1 | 126.0 | C11—C10—C9 | 120.54 (12) |
C1—C2—C3 | 107.85 (10) | C11—C10—H10 | 119.7 |
C1—C2—H2 | 126.1 | C9—C10—H10 | 119.7 |
C3—C2—H2 | 126.1 | C6—C11—C10 | 119.17 (11) |
C4—C3—C2 | 108.26 (10) | C6—C11—H11 | 120.4 |
C4—C3—H3 | 125.9 | C10—C11—H11 | 120.4 |
C2—C3—H3 | 125.9 | C9—C12—H12A | 109.5 |
C3—C4—N1 | 106.85 (10) | C9—C12—H12B | 109.5 |
C3—C4—C5 | 129.33 (11) | H12A—C12—H12B | 109.5 |
N1—C4—C5 | 123.67 (10) | C9—C12—H12C | 109.5 |
C5i—C5—C4 | 175.78 (16) | H12A—C12—H12C | 109.5 |
C11—C6—C7 | 121.47 (11) | H12B—C12—H12C | 109.5 |
O2—S1—N1—C1 | −126.14 (10) | O2—S1—C6—C11 | −9.04 (11) |
O1—S1—N1—C1 | 3.48 (11) | O1—S1—C6—C11 | −143.78 (9) |
C6—S1—N1—C1 | 118.78 (10) | N1—S1—C6—C11 | 104.90 (10) |
O2—S1—N1—C4 | 46.48 (11) | O2—S1—C6—C7 | 171.15 (9) |
O1—S1—N1—C4 | 176.09 (10) | O1—S1—C6—C7 | 36.41 (11) |
C6—S1—N1—C4 | −68.61 (11) | N1—S1—C6—C7 | −74.92 (10) |
C4—N1—C1—C2 | −0.14 (13) | C11—C6—C7—C8 | −1.01 (17) |
S1—N1—C1—C2 | 173.61 (9) | S1—C6—C7—C8 | 178.80 (9) |
N1—C1—C2—C3 | −0.01 (14) | C6—C7—C8—C9 | 0.15 (18) |
C1—C2—C3—C4 | 0.16 (14) | C7—C8—C9—C10 | 0.76 (18) |
C2—C3—C4—N1 | −0.24 (13) | C7—C8—C9—C12 | −179.25 (12) |
C2—C3—C4—C5 | 175.18 (12) | C8—C9—C10—C11 | −0.83 (18) |
C1—N1—C4—C3 | 0.23 (13) | C12—C9—C10—C11 | 179.17 (11) |
S1—N1—C4—C3 | −173.29 (9) | C7—C6—C11—C10 | 0.93 (17) |
C1—N1—C4—C5 | −175.51 (11) | S1—C6—C11—C10 | −178.88 (9) |
S1—N1—C4—C5 | 10.97 (17) | C9—C10—C11—C6 | 0.01 (17) |
Symmetry code: (i) −x+1, −y+1, −z+1. |
D—H···A | D—H | H···A | D···A | D—H···A |
C3—H3···O2ii | 0.95 | 2.53 | 3.278 (2) | 136 |
Symmetry code: (ii) x, y, z+1. |
Experimental details
Crystal data | |
Chemical formula | C24H20N2O4S2 |
Mr | 464.54 |
Crystal system, space group | Monoclinic, P21/c |
Temperature (K) | 90 |
a, b, c (Å) | 8.5127 (15), 16.822 (2), 7.5311 (11) |
β (°) | 101.049 (7) |
V (Å3) | 1058.5 (3) |
Z | 2 |
Radiation type | Mo Kα |
µ (mm−1) | 0.29 |
Crystal size (mm) | 0.35 × 0.30 × 0.12 |
Data collection | |
Diffractometer | Nonius KappaCCD (with Oxford Cryostream) |
Absorption correction | Multi-scan (HKL SCALEPACK; Otwinowski & Minor 1997) |
Tmin, Tmax | 0.896, 0.966 |
No. of measured, independent and observed [I > 2σ(I)] reflections | 16546, 3565, 2995 |
Rint | 0.019 |
(sin θ/λ)max (Å−1) | 0.758 |
Refinement | |
R[F2 > 2σ(F2)], wR(F2), S | 0.037, 0.100, 1.05 |
No. of reflections | 3565 |
No. of parameters | 147 |
H-atom treatment | H-atom parameters constrained |
Δρmax, Δρmin (e Å−3) | 0.39, −0.54 |
Computer programs: COLLECT (Nonius, 2000), HKL SCALEPACK (Otwinowski & Minor 1997), HKL DENZO (Otwinowski & Minor 1997) and HKL SCALEPACK (Otwinowski & Minor 1997), SIR97 (Altomare et al., 1999), SHELXL97 (Sheldrick, 1997), ORTEP-3 for Windows (Farrugia, 1997).
D—H···A | D—H | H···A | D···A | D—H···A |
C3—H3···O2i | 0.95 | 2.53 | 3.278 (2) | 136 |
Symmetry code: (i) x, y, z+1. |
Acknowledgements
The purchase of the diffractometer was made possible by Grant No. LEQSF(1999–2000)-ENH-TR-13, administered by the Louisiana Board of Regents.
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Bis(1-tosyl-pyrrol-2-yl)ethyne (I) is an important intermediate in the synthesis of porphyrin analogues containing a two-carbon interpyrrolic bridge such as in corrphycene (Vogel, 1996). Compound (I) was prepared by an improved Sonogashira coupling reaction (Chinchilla & Najera, 2007) between 2-bromo-1-tosyl-pyrrole and ethyne-trimethylsilane in the presence of Pd(0) and Cu(I) catalysts at room temperature, see Experimental.
The molecule lies about an inversion center. The pyrrole rings are experimentally planar, but offset 0.318 (1) Å from co-planarity, because of the deviation from linearity of the C—C≡C—C group. Pyrrole-H atoms form intermolecular C—H···O interactions (Desiraju & Steiner, 1999) with sulfonate-O, C···O 3.278 (2) Å and angle of 136° about H. Thes einteractions lead to the formation of ladder-like chains along the [001] direction, Fig. 2.
The structures of related tosylpyrroles, i.e. 2-bromo-N-(p-toluenesulfonyl)pyrrole (Abell et al., 1998) and 2-chloromethyl-1-(4-methylphenylsulfonyl)pyrrole (Knight et al., 2003) have been reported. A similar compound containing the bis(2-pyrrolyl)ethyne core (Tanui et al., 2008) lies on a twofold axis rather than an inversion center, and has its pyrrole groups twisted by 40.49 (4)° from co-planarity.