organic compounds
(2E)-3-(4-Chlorophenyl)-1-(1H-pyrrol-2-yl)prop-2-en-1-one
aInstitute of Chemistry, University of the Punjab, Lahore 54590, Pakistan, bUniversity of Sargodha, Department of Physics, Sargodha, Pakistan, and cDepartment of Chemistry, F.C. University, Lahore 54600, Pakistan
*Correspondence e-mail: dmntahir_uos@yahoo.com
In the molecule of the title compound, C13H10ClNO, the benzene and pyrrole rings are oriented at a dihedral angle of 7.37 (12)°. In the intermolecular N—H⋯O hydrogen bonds link the molecules into centrosymmetric R22(10) dimers. There are C—H⋯π interactions between benzene and pyrrole rings and a benzene C—H group. A weak π–π interaction between the pyrrole rings [centroid–centroid distance 3.8515 (11) Å] further stabilizes the structure. There is also a π interaction between the pyrrole ring and the carbonyl group, with a carbon–centroid distance of 3.4825 (18) Å.
Related literature
For general background, see: Varga et al. (2003); Katritzky & Rees (1984); Wu et al. (2003); Nam et al. (2003); Sondhi et al. (2005); Miyazaki et al. (2005). For related literature, see: Powers et al. (1998); Hu et al. (2006); Wang et al. (2005); Zeng & Cen (2006). For ring motif details, see: Bernstein et al. (1995).
Experimental
Crystal data
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Refinement
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Data collection: APEX2 (Bruker, 2007); cell APEX2; data reduction: SAINT (Bruker, 2007); program(s) used to solve structure: SHELXS97 (Sheldrick, 2008); program(s) used to refine structure: SHELXL97 (Sheldrick, 2008); molecular graphics: ORTEP-3 for Windows (Farrugia, 1997) and PLATON (Spek, 2003); software used to prepare material for publication: WinGX (Farrugia, 1999) and PLATON.
Supporting information
10.1107/S1600536808010362/hk2452sup1.cif
contains datablocks global, I. DOI:Structure factors: contains datablock I. DOI: 10.1107/S1600536808010362/hk2452Isup2.hkl
For the preparation of the title compound, a mixture of 4-chlorobenzaldehyde (1.4 g, 10 mmol) and 2-acetyl pyrrole (1.09 g, 10 mmol) was added to MeOH (20 ml) and stirred for 10 min at room temperature. Then, aqueous NaOH solution (10%, 4 ml) was added dropwise with continuous stirring at ambient temperature for 30 min. Light yellow precipitates appeared, to which cold water (40 ml) was added. Yellow colored powder was obtained from the filtrate, which was washed with cold MeOH, and then dried. The residue was recrystallized by dissolving in CHCl3 (10 ml) and adding n-hexane dropwise. Fine yellow crystals were obtained (yield; 1.7 g, 73%, m.p. 420-422 K).
H atoms were located in a difference syntheses and refined [N-H = 0.83 (2) Å and Uiso(H) = 0.073 (6) Å2; C-H = 0.937 (19)-0.98 (2) Å and Uiso(H) = 0.062 (5)-0.091 (7) Å2].
Data collection: APEX2 (Bruker, 2007); cell
APEX2 (Bruker, 2007); data reduction: SAINT (Bruker, 2007); program(s) used to solve structure: SHELXS97 (Sheldrick, 2008); program(s) used to refine structure: SHELXL97 (Sheldrick, 2008); molecular graphics: ORTEP-3 for Windows (Farrugia, 1997) and PLATON (Spek, 2003); software used to prepare material for publication: WinGX (Farrugia, 1999) and PLATON (Spek, 2003).Fig. 1. The molecular structure of the title molecule, with the atom-numbering scheme. Displacement ellipsoids are drawn at the 50% probability level. | |
Fig. 2. A partial packing diagram of (I), showing the formation of centro- symmetric R22(10) ring motifs. Hydrogen bonds are shown as dashed lines. |
C13H10ClNO | F(000) = 480 |
Mr = 231.67 | Dx = 1.341 Mg m−3 |
Monoclinic, P21/c | Mo Kα radiation, λ = 0.71073 Å |
Hall symbol: -P 2ybc | Cell parameters from 2883 reflections |
a = 13.0401 (7) Å | θ = 2.4–28.7° |
b = 5.6326 (3) Å | µ = 0.31 mm−1 |
c = 15.6857 (8) Å | T = 296 K |
β = 94.979 (3)° | Prismatic, light yellow |
V = 1147.76 (10) Å3 | 0.30 × 0.22 × 0.20 mm |
Z = 4 |
Bruker KappaAPEXII CCD diffractometer | 3081 independent reflections |
Radiation source: fine-focus sealed tube | 2180 reflections with I > 2σ(I) |
Graphite monochromator | Rint = 0.026 |
Detector resolution: 7.30 pixels mm-1 | θmax = 29.1°, θmin = 1.6° |
ω scans | h = −17→17 |
Absorption correction: multi-scan (SADABS; Bruker, 2005) | k = −7→7 |
Tmin = 0.903, Tmax = 0.935 | l = −21→21 |
13745 measured reflections |
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)] = 0.043 | Hydrogen site location: inferred from neighbouring sites |
wR(F2) = 0.128 | All H-atom parameters refined |
S = 1.02 | w = 1/[σ2(Fo2) + (0.0533P)2 + 0.3294P] where P = (Fo2 + 2Fc2)/3 |
3081 reflections | (Δ/σ)max < 0.001 |
185 parameters | Δρmax = 0.29 e Å−3 |
0 restraints | Δρmin = −0.30 e Å−3 |
C13H10ClNO | V = 1147.76 (10) Å3 |
Mr = 231.67 | Z = 4 |
Monoclinic, P21/c | Mo Kα radiation |
a = 13.0401 (7) Å | µ = 0.31 mm−1 |
b = 5.6326 (3) Å | T = 296 K |
c = 15.6857 (8) Å | 0.30 × 0.22 × 0.20 mm |
β = 94.979 (3)° |
Bruker KappaAPEXII CCD diffractometer | 3081 independent reflections |
Absorption correction: multi-scan (SADABS; Bruker, 2005) | 2180 reflections with I > 2σ(I) |
Tmin = 0.903, Tmax = 0.935 | Rint = 0.026 |
13745 measured reflections |
R[F2 > 2σ(F2)] = 0.043 | 0 restraints |
wR(F2) = 0.128 | All H-atom parameters refined |
S = 1.02 | Δρmax = 0.29 e Å−3 |
3081 reflections | Δρmin = −0.30 e Å−3 |
185 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 > 2sigma(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 | ||
Cl | 0.47349 (5) | −0.30082 (12) | 0.06812 (4) | 0.0972 (3) | |
O1 | 0.10949 (10) | 0.4232 (2) | 0.43283 (8) | 0.0672 (4) | |
N1 | 0.05564 (11) | 0.2306 (3) | 0.58749 (10) | 0.0572 (4) | |
C1 | 0.29765 (11) | 0.0517 (3) | 0.26744 (10) | 0.0464 (3) | |
C2 | 0.34920 (13) | −0.1623 (3) | 0.28485 (11) | 0.0525 (4) | |
C3 | 0.40411 (13) | −0.2692 (3) | 0.22394 (12) | 0.0566 (4) | |
C4 | 0.40726 (13) | −0.1631 (3) | 0.14559 (11) | 0.0563 (4) | |
C5 | 0.35867 (14) | 0.0498 (3) | 0.12645 (11) | 0.0588 (4) | |
C6 | 0.30445 (13) | 0.1551 (3) | 0.18805 (11) | 0.0537 (4) | |
C7 | 0.23600 (12) | 0.1706 (3) | 0.32855 (10) | 0.0503 (4) | |
C8 | 0.20870 (13) | 0.0873 (3) | 0.40137 (11) | 0.0548 (4) | |
C9 | 0.14204 (12) | 0.2253 (3) | 0.45499 (11) | 0.0522 (4) | |
C10 | 0.11764 (11) | 0.1179 (3) | 0.53393 (10) | 0.0501 (4) | |
C11 | 0.14707 (13) | −0.0945 (3) | 0.57282 (11) | 0.0566 (4) | |
C12 | 0.10275 (15) | −0.1076 (4) | 0.65000 (13) | 0.0659 (5) | |
C13 | 0.04627 (14) | 0.0958 (4) | 0.65667 (12) | 0.0668 (5) | |
H2 | 0.3481 (14) | −0.236 (3) | 0.3387 (13) | 0.066 (5)* | |
H3 | 0.4387 (13) | −0.413 (3) | 0.2358 (11) | 0.062 (5)* | |
H6 | 0.2713 (14) | 0.300 (4) | 0.1763 (12) | 0.063 (5)* | |
H5 | 0.3607 (15) | 0.124 (4) | 0.0702 (14) | 0.075 (6)* | |
H7 | 0.2116 (14) | 0.324 (4) | 0.3102 (12) | 0.067 (5)* | |
H8 | 0.2289 (15) | −0.069 (4) | 0.4203 (13) | 0.076 (6)* | |
H1 | 0.0220 (17) | 0.353 (4) | 0.5749 (14) | 0.073 (6)* | |
H11 | 0.1896 (14) | −0.211 (3) | 0.5521 (12) | 0.063 (5)* | |
H12 | 0.1118 (15) | −0.226 (4) | 0.6931 (14) | 0.075 (6)* | |
H13 | 0.0089 (17) | 0.150 (4) | 0.7011 (15) | 0.091 (7)* |
U11 | U22 | U33 | U12 | U13 | U23 | |
Cl | 0.1189 (5) | 0.0979 (5) | 0.0810 (4) | 0.0298 (3) | 0.0442 (3) | −0.0182 (3) |
O1 | 0.0738 (8) | 0.0584 (7) | 0.0716 (8) | 0.0223 (6) | 0.0185 (6) | −0.0044 (6) |
N1 | 0.0521 (7) | 0.0644 (9) | 0.0560 (8) | 0.0095 (7) | 0.0107 (6) | −0.0144 (7) |
C1 | 0.0443 (7) | 0.0442 (7) | 0.0509 (8) | 0.0037 (6) | 0.0063 (6) | −0.0076 (6) |
C2 | 0.0576 (9) | 0.0474 (8) | 0.0535 (9) | 0.0092 (7) | 0.0107 (7) | 0.0012 (7) |
C3 | 0.0576 (9) | 0.0457 (8) | 0.0676 (11) | 0.0115 (7) | 0.0123 (8) | −0.0056 (7) |
C4 | 0.0568 (9) | 0.0561 (9) | 0.0578 (9) | 0.0044 (7) | 0.0144 (7) | −0.0152 (7) |
C5 | 0.0653 (10) | 0.0612 (10) | 0.0512 (9) | 0.0050 (8) | 0.0120 (7) | −0.0006 (8) |
C6 | 0.0584 (9) | 0.0467 (8) | 0.0567 (9) | 0.0107 (7) | 0.0083 (7) | 0.0008 (7) |
C7 | 0.0500 (8) | 0.0475 (8) | 0.0536 (9) | 0.0098 (6) | 0.0062 (6) | −0.0073 (7) |
C8 | 0.0558 (9) | 0.0531 (9) | 0.0565 (9) | 0.0132 (7) | 0.0113 (7) | −0.0078 (7) |
C9 | 0.0481 (8) | 0.0550 (9) | 0.0537 (9) | 0.0078 (7) | 0.0062 (6) | −0.0136 (7) |
C10 | 0.0439 (7) | 0.0546 (9) | 0.0518 (8) | 0.0040 (6) | 0.0048 (6) | −0.0162 (7) |
C11 | 0.0531 (9) | 0.0556 (9) | 0.0614 (10) | 0.0012 (7) | 0.0072 (7) | −0.0107 (8) |
C12 | 0.0647 (10) | 0.0701 (12) | 0.0638 (11) | −0.0064 (9) | 0.0113 (8) | −0.0008 (10) |
C13 | 0.0576 (10) | 0.0844 (13) | 0.0604 (11) | −0.0042 (9) | 0.0163 (8) | −0.0137 (10) |
Cl—C4 | 1.7339 (15) | C5—H5 | 0.98 (2) |
O1—C9 | 1.232 (2) | C6—H6 | 0.94 (2) |
N1—C13 | 1.338 (3) | C7—C8 | 1.312 (2) |
N1—C10 | 1.3711 (19) | C7—H7 | 0.96 (2) |
N1—H1 | 0.83 (2) | C8—C9 | 1.481 (2) |
C1—C6 | 1.384 (2) | C8—H8 | 0.96 (2) |
C1—C2 | 1.396 (2) | C9—C10 | 1.438 (2) |
C1—C7 | 1.465 (2) | C10—C11 | 1.382 (2) |
C2—C3 | 1.381 (2) | C11—C12 | 1.388 (3) |
C2—H2 | 0.94 (2) | C11—H11 | 0.937 (19) |
C3—C4 | 1.370 (3) | C12—C13 | 1.371 (3) |
C3—H3 | 0.938 (18) | C12—H12 | 0.95 (2) |
C4—C5 | 1.377 (2) | C13—H13 | 0.94 (2) |
C5—C6 | 1.380 (2) | ||
C13—N1—C10 | 109.55 (16) | C8—C7—C1 | 127.72 (15) |
C13—N1—H1 | 125.3 (15) | C8—C7—H7 | 118.5 (12) |
C10—N1—H1 | 124.5 (15) | C1—C7—H7 | 113.7 (12) |
C6—C1—C2 | 118.16 (14) | C7—C8—C9 | 121.58 (16) |
C6—C1—C7 | 118.54 (14) | C7—C8—H8 | 120.7 (12) |
C2—C1—C7 | 123.29 (15) | C9—C8—H8 | 117.7 (12) |
C3—C2—C1 | 120.73 (16) | O1—C9—C10 | 121.80 (14) |
C3—C2—H2 | 118.7 (12) | O1—C9—C8 | 121.29 (16) |
C1—C2—H2 | 120.6 (12) | C10—C9—C8 | 116.91 (14) |
C4—C3—C2 | 119.22 (16) | N1—C10—C11 | 106.62 (15) |
C4—C3—H3 | 120.2 (11) | N1—C10—C9 | 121.27 (15) |
C2—C3—H3 | 120.5 (11) | C11—C10—C9 | 132.10 (14) |
C3—C4—C5 | 121.75 (15) | C10—C11—C12 | 108.08 (16) |
C3—C4—Cl | 119.27 (13) | C10—C11—H11 | 127.2 (12) |
C5—C4—Cl | 118.98 (14) | C12—C11—H11 | 124.7 (12) |
C4—C5—C6 | 118.40 (16) | C13—C12—C11 | 106.80 (18) |
C4—C5—H5 | 121.3 (12) | C13—C12—H12 | 124.5 (13) |
C6—C5—H5 | 120.3 (12) | C11—C12—H12 | 128.6 (13) |
C5—C6—C1 | 121.72 (15) | N1—C13—C12 | 108.94 (17) |
C5—C6—H6 | 119.6 (12) | N1—C13—H13 | 120.7 (15) |
C1—C6—H6 | 118.7 (12) | C12—C13—H13 | 130.3 (15) |
C6—C1—C2—C3 | −0.9 (2) | C7—C8—C9—O1 | 0.3 (3) |
C7—C1—C2—C3 | 178.38 (16) | C7—C8—C9—C10 | −179.47 (15) |
C1—C2—C3—C4 | −0.3 (3) | C13—N1—C10—C11 | −0.09 (19) |
C2—C3—C4—C5 | 1.2 (3) | C13—N1—C10—C9 | −179.06 (15) |
C2—C3—C4—Cl | −178.39 (13) | O1—C9—C10—N1 | 0.9 (2) |
C3—C4—C5—C6 | −1.0 (3) | C8—C9—C10—N1 | −179.32 (14) |
Cl—C4—C5—C6 | 178.67 (14) | O1—C9—C10—C11 | −177.75 (17) |
C4—C5—C6—C1 | −0.3 (3) | C8—C9—C10—C11 | 2.0 (3) |
C2—C1—C6—C5 | 1.2 (3) | N1—C10—C11—C12 | −0.27 (19) |
C7—C1—C6—C5 | −178.12 (15) | C9—C10—C11—C12 | 178.54 (17) |
C6—C1—C7—C8 | 170.00 (17) | C10—C11—C12—C13 | 0.5 (2) |
C2—C1—C7—C8 | −9.3 (3) | C10—N1—C13—C12 | 0.4 (2) |
C1—C7—C8—C9 | −177.33 (15) | C11—C12—C13—N1 | −0.6 (2) |
D—H···A | D—H | H···A | D···A | D—H···A |
N1—H1···O1i | 0.83 (2) | 2.12 (2) | 2.902 (2) | 156 (2) |
C3—H3···CgAii | 0.938 (18) | 2.897 (17) | 3.6339 (19) | 136.4 (13) |
C6—H6···CgBiii | 0.94 (2) | 2.651 (19) | 3.4017 (19) | 137.8 (16) |
Symmetry codes: (i) −x, −y+1, −z+1; (ii) −x+1, y−1/2, −z+1/2; (iii) x, −y−1/2, z−3/2. |
Experimental details
Crystal data | |
Chemical formula | C13H10ClNO |
Mr | 231.67 |
Crystal system, space group | Monoclinic, P21/c |
Temperature (K) | 296 |
a, b, c (Å) | 13.0401 (7), 5.6326 (3), 15.6857 (8) |
β (°) | 94.979 (3) |
V (Å3) | 1147.76 (10) |
Z | 4 |
Radiation type | Mo Kα |
µ (mm−1) | 0.31 |
Crystal size (mm) | 0.30 × 0.22 × 0.20 |
Data collection | |
Diffractometer | Bruker KappaAPEXII CCD diffractometer |
Absorption correction | Multi-scan (SADABS; Bruker, 2005) |
Tmin, Tmax | 0.903, 0.935 |
No. of measured, independent and observed [I > 2σ(I)] reflections | 13745, 3081, 2180 |
Rint | 0.026 |
(sin θ/λ)max (Å−1) | 0.684 |
Refinement | |
R[F2 > 2σ(F2)], wR(F2), S | 0.043, 0.128, 1.02 |
No. of reflections | 3081 |
No. of parameters | 185 |
H-atom treatment | All H-atom parameters refined |
Δρmax, Δρmin (e Å−3) | 0.29, −0.30 |
Computer programs: APEX2 (Bruker, 2007), SAINT (Bruker, 2007), SHELXS97 (Sheldrick, 2008), SHELXL97 (Sheldrick, 2008), ORTEP-3 for Windows (Farrugia, 1997) and PLATON (Spek, 2003), WinGX (Farrugia, 1999) and PLATON (Spek, 2003).
D—H···A | D—H | H···A | D···A | D—H···A |
N1—H1···O1i | 0.83 (2) | 2.12 (2) | 2.902 (2) | 156 (2) |
C3—H3···CgAii | 0.938 (18) | 2.897 (17) | 3.6339 (19) | 136.4 (13) |
C6—H6···CgBiii | 0.94 (2) | 2.651 (19) | 3.4017 (19) | 137.8 (16) |
Symmetry codes: (i) −x, −y+1, −z+1; (ii) −x+1, y−1/2, −z+1/2; (iii) x, −y−1/2, z−3/2. |
Acknowledgements
The authors acknowledge the Higher Education Commision, Islamabad, Pakistan, for funding the purchase of the diffractometer.
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Chalcones are 1,3-diaryl α,β-unsaturated compounds commonly used as starting materials for the synthesis of several biologically active compounds like pyrimidines and imidazoles (Varga et al., 2003). Most of the chalcones and their derivatives show biological activities such as antimicrobial (Katritzky & Rees, 1984), anti-AIDS (Wu et al., 2003), antimalarial (Nam et al., 2003), anti-inflammatory and analgesic (Sondhi et al., 2005) and antitumor (Miyazaki et al., 2005). While synthesizing different pyrimidine based compounds, we prepared the fine crystals of the title compound, (I), with known method (Powers et al., 1998). We report herein its crystal structure.
The crystal structures of 3-(4-chlorophenyl)-1-(3,4-dimethyl-2,5-dihydro-1H- pyrrol-1-yl)prop-2-enone, (II) (Hu et al., 2006), methyl-3-(1H-pyrrol-2-yl- carboxamido)propionate, (III) (Zeng & Cen, 2006) and 1,3-bis(4-chlorophenyl)- prop-2-en-1-one, (IV) (Wang et al., 2005) have been reported, previously. The title compound, (I), contains the moieties involved in these reported structures.
In the molecule of (I), (Fig. 1), the bond lengths N1-C10 [1.3711 (19) Å], N1-C13 [1.338 (3) Å] and C11-C12 [1.388 (3) Å] are reported as 1.457 (5), 1.461 (5) and 1.328 (6) Å in (II) and 1.369 (2), 1.349 (3) and 1.398 (3) Å in (III), respectively. Rings A (C1-C6) and B (N1/C10-C13) are, of course, planar and they are oriented at a dihedral angle of 7.37 (12)°. So, they are nearly coplanar. The planar central moiety (O1/C7-C9) is oriented with respect to rings A and B at dihedral angles of 8.92 (12)° and 1.94 (15)°, respectively.
In the crystal structure, intermolecular N-H···O hydrogen bonds (Table 1) link the molecules into centrosymmetric R22(10) dimers (Fig. 2) (Bernstein et al., 1995), in which they may be effective in the stabilization of the structure. The C—H···π interactions (Table 1) and π—π interactions between B rings CgB···CgBiv [symmetry code: (iv) -x, -y, 1 - z] further stabilize the structure, with a centroid-centroid distance of 3.8515 (11) Å. There is also a π interaction between the ring B at -x, -y, 1 - z and the carbonyl moiety, with C9-centroid distance of 3.4825 (18) Å.