organic compounds
1,3-Bis(phenylsufanylmethyl)benzene
aAdvanced Materials Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, 1001 University Blvd SE, Albuquerque, NM, 87106, USA, and bDepartment of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, MSC03 2060, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131, USA
*Correspondence e-mail: rakemp@unm.edu
The complete molecule of the title compound, C20H18S2, is generated by crystallographic mirror symmetry, with two C atoms lying on the mirror plane. All of the independent atoms are contained within two planes defined by the thiophenyl rings (C6S) and the central phenyl ring with the methylene bridge; the r.m.s deviations of these planes are 0.012 and 0.025 Å, respectively. The two planes are almost perpendicular to one another at a dihedral angle of 80.24 (10)°. Intermolecular C—H—π interactions are present in the crystal structure.
Related literature
For the use of the title compound as a ligand, see: Bu et al. (2002); Romero et al. (1996); Loeb & Wisner (1998); Kruithof et al. (2008); Bergholdt et al. (1998); Kobayashi et al. (2000). For related organic molecules, see: Cervantes et al. (2006); Sillanpää et al. (1994); Arroyo et al. (2003).
Experimental
Crystal data
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Data collection: APEX2 (Bruker, 2007); cell SAINT (Bruker, 2007); data reduction: SAINT; program(s) used to solve structure: XS in SHELXTL (Sheldrick, 2008); program(s) used to refine structure: XL in SHELXTL; molecular graphics: DIAMOND (Brandenburg, 2007); software used to prepare material for publication: publCIF (McMahon & Westrip, 2008) and PLATON (Spek, 2009).
Supporting information
10.1107/S1600536810005775/fb2176sup1.cif
contains datablocks I, New_Global_Publ_Block. DOI:Structure factors: contains datablock I. DOI: 10.1107/S1600536810005775/fb2176Isup2.hkl
1,3-Bis((phenylthio)methyl)benzene was synthesized according to the literature method (Romero, et al. 1996). To grow crystals, a
of 1,3-bis((phenylthio)methyl)benzene was prepared in hot pentane. An of this was transferred to a 20 ml vial, which was then tightly capped. The vial was placed in a bath of hot water and allowed to slowly cool to room temperature. Colorless, needle-like crystals of up to 10 mm in length formed over approximately 30 minutes. The solvent was then decanted and the crystals allowed to air dry. Several needles of ca. 1 mm in length were placed in a melting point capillary with an internal diameter 0.5 mm and the melting point was determined to be 84 - 86 °C.Hydrogen atoms were included at geometrically idealized positions with C—H distances of 0.94 Å for aryl H atoms and 0.98 Å for methylene H atoms. The hydrogen atoms were treated as riding on their respective heavy atoms. The isotropic thermal parameters of the hydrogen atoms were fixed at 1.2 Ueq of the parent atom.
Data collection: APEX2 (Bruker, 2007); cell
SAINT (Bruker, 2007); data reduction: SAINT (Bruker, 2007); program(s) used to solve structure: XS in SHELXTL (Sheldrick, 2008); program(s) used to refine structure: XL in SHELXTL (Sheldrick, 2008); molecular graphics: DIAMOND (Brandenburg, 2007); software used to prepare material for publication: publCIF (McMahon & Westrip, 2008) and PLATON (Spek, 2009).Fig. 1. View of the title compound showing full numbering scheme. The displacement ellipsoids are shown at the 50% probability level. |
C20H18S2 | Dx = 1.287 Mg m−3 |
Mr = 322.46 | Melting point = 357–359 K |
Orthorhombic, Cmc21 | Mo Kα radiation, λ = 0.71073 Å |
Hall symbol: C 2c -2 | Cell parameters from 8194 reflections |
a = 32.072 (2) Å | θ = 2.8–28.1° |
b = 7.6053 (5) Å | µ = 0.31 mm−1 |
c = 6.8224 (5) Å | T = 228 K |
V = 1664.1 (2) Å3 | Needle, colourless |
Z = 4 | 0.76 × 0.15 × 0.10 mm |
F(000) = 680 |
Bruker APEXII CCD area-detector diffractometer | 1689 independent reflections |
Radiation source: fine-focus sealed tube | 1417 reflections with I > 2σ(I) |
Graphite monochromator | Rint = 0.052 |
ϕ and ω scans | θmax = 26.4°, θmin = 3.3° |
Absorption correction: multi-scan (SADABS; Bruker, 2001) | h = −40→40 |
Tmin = 0.797, Tmax = 0.970 | k = −9→9 |
14404 measured reflections | l = −8→8 |
Refinement on F2 | Secondary atom site location: difference Fourier map |
Least-squares matrix: full | Hydrogen site location: difference Fourier map |
R[F2 > 2σ(F2)] = 0.035 | H-atom parameters constrained |
wR(F2) = 0.086 | w = 1/[σ2(Fo2) + (0.0408P)2 + 0.6358P] where P = (Fo2 + 2Fc2)/3 |
S = 1.12 | (Δ/σ)max < 0.001 |
1689 reflections | Δρmax = 0.27 e Å−3 |
103 parameters | Δρmin = −0.31 e Å−3 |
1 restraint | Absolute structure: Flack (1983), 736 Friedel pairs |
38 constraints | Absolute structure parameter: 0.05 (12) |
Primary atom site location: structure-invariant direct methods |
C20H18S2 | V = 1664.1 (2) Å3 |
Mr = 322.46 | Z = 4 |
Orthorhombic, Cmc21 | Mo Kα radiation |
a = 32.072 (2) Å | µ = 0.31 mm−1 |
b = 7.6053 (5) Å | T = 228 K |
c = 6.8224 (5) Å | 0.76 × 0.15 × 0.10 mm |
Bruker APEXII CCD area-detector diffractometer | 1689 independent reflections |
Absorption correction: multi-scan (SADABS; Bruker, 2001) | 1417 reflections with I > 2σ(I) |
Tmin = 0.797, Tmax = 0.970 | Rint = 0.052 |
14404 measured reflections |
R[F2 > 2σ(F2)] = 0.035 | H-atom parameters constrained |
wR(F2) = 0.086 | Δρmax = 0.27 e Å−3 |
S = 1.12 | Δρmin = −0.31 e Å−3 |
1689 reflections | Absolute structure: Flack (1983), 736 Friedel pairs |
103 parameters | Absolute structure parameter: 0.05 (12) |
1 restraint |
Geometry. All esds (except the esd in the dihedral angle between two l.s. planes) are estimated using the full covariance matrix. The cell esds are taken into account individually in the estimation of esds in distances, angles and torsion angles; correlations between esds in cell parameters are only used when they are defined by crystal symmetry. An approximate (isotropic) treatment of cell esds is used for estimating esds 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 | 0.415866 (15) | 0.21909 (7) | 0.49099 (13) | 0.03480 (17) | |
C1 | 0.5000 | 0.3639 (4) | 0.7139 (5) | 0.0295 (7) | |
H1A | 0.5000 | 0.4312 | 0.5984 | 0.035* | |
C2 | 0.46220 (7) | 0.3148 (3) | 0.7983 (4) | 0.0295 (5) | |
C3 | 0.46271 (7) | 0.2166 (3) | 0.9699 (5) | 0.0362 (6) | |
H3A | 0.4374 | 0.1836 | 1.0290 | 0.043* | |
C4 | 0.5000 | 0.1671 (4) | 1.0546 (6) | 0.0406 (9) | |
H4A | 0.5000 | 0.0996 | 1.1700 | 0.049* | |
C5 | 0.42152 (7) | 0.3621 (3) | 0.7015 (4) | 0.0343 (6) | |
H5A | 0.4218 | 0.4855 | 0.6601 | 0.041* | |
H5B | 0.3983 | 0.3448 | 0.7928 | 0.041* | |
C6 | 0.36379 (7) | 0.2480 (3) | 0.4147 (4) | 0.0313 (5) | |
C7 | 0.33665 (6) | 0.3748 (3) | 0.4885 (5) | 0.0344 (5) | |
H7A | 0.3459 | 0.4547 | 0.5843 | 0.041* | |
C8 | 0.29608 (8) | 0.3827 (3) | 0.4201 (4) | 0.0400 (6) | |
H8A | 0.2779 | 0.4681 | 0.4710 | 0.048* | |
C9 | 0.28185 (8) | 0.2686 (3) | 0.2796 (4) | 0.0449 (7) | |
H9A | 0.2541 | 0.2750 | 0.2353 | 0.054* | |
C10 | 0.30905 (8) | 0.1432 (4) | 0.2032 (4) | 0.0467 (7) | |
H10A | 0.2998 | 0.0651 | 0.1058 | 0.056* | |
C11 | 0.34957 (8) | 0.1333 (3) | 0.2704 (4) | 0.0401 (6) | |
H11A | 0.3677 | 0.0483 | 0.2183 | 0.048* |
U11 | U22 | U33 | U12 | U13 | U23 | |
S1 | 0.0321 (3) | 0.0375 (3) | 0.0348 (3) | 0.0052 (2) | 0.0004 (3) | −0.0071 (4) |
C1 | 0.0353 (17) | 0.0270 (15) | 0.0264 (19) | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.0012 (14) |
C2 | 0.0326 (12) | 0.0268 (10) | 0.0290 (13) | 0.0000 (9) | 0.0007 (10) | −0.0049 (11) |
C3 | 0.0406 (12) | 0.0326 (10) | 0.0356 (15) | −0.0048 (9) | 0.0095 (14) | −0.0008 (13) |
C4 | 0.058 (2) | 0.0348 (17) | 0.029 (2) | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.0085 (15) |
C5 | 0.0304 (11) | 0.0341 (12) | 0.0382 (15) | 0.0018 (10) | 0.0014 (11) | −0.0071 (11) |
C6 | 0.0316 (12) | 0.0328 (11) | 0.0295 (13) | −0.0041 (9) | 0.0021 (9) | 0.0027 (10) |
C7 | 0.0321 (10) | 0.0384 (11) | 0.0327 (13) | −0.0010 (8) | 0.0007 (14) | −0.0038 (15) |
C8 | 0.0355 (13) | 0.0476 (14) | 0.0369 (15) | 0.0035 (11) | 0.0043 (11) | −0.0001 (11) |
C9 | 0.0335 (13) | 0.0581 (15) | 0.0430 (18) | −0.0060 (11) | −0.0051 (12) | 0.0049 (15) |
C10 | 0.0478 (16) | 0.0509 (16) | 0.0413 (18) | −0.0095 (12) | −0.0065 (13) | −0.0095 (13) |
C11 | 0.0446 (14) | 0.0375 (13) | 0.0381 (16) | 0.0002 (11) | 0.0010 (12) | −0.0101 (12) |
S1—C6 | 1.763 (2) | C5—H5B | 0.9800 |
S1—C5 | 1.811 (2) | C6—C11 | 1.392 (3) |
C1—C2i | 1.393 (3) | C6—C7 | 1.393 (3) |
C1—C2 | 1.393 (3) | C7—C8 | 1.384 (3) |
C1—H1A | 0.9400 | C7—H7A | 0.9400 |
C2—C3 | 1.388 (4) | C8—C9 | 1.371 (4) |
C2—C5 | 1.506 (3) | C8—H8A | 0.9400 |
C3—C4 | 1.381 (3) | C9—C10 | 1.394 (4) |
C3—H3A | 0.9400 | C9—H9A | 0.9400 |
C4—C3i | 1.381 (3) | C10—C11 | 1.380 (3) |
C4—H4A | 0.9400 | C10—H10A | 0.9400 |
C5—H5A | 0.9800 | C11—H11A | 0.9400 |
C6—S1—C5 | 104.72 (11) | C11—C6—C7 | 119.0 (2) |
C2i—C1—C2 | 121.0 (3) | C11—C6—S1 | 116.16 (18) |
C2i—C1—H1A | 119.5 | C7—C6—S1 | 124.85 (19) |
C2—C1—H1A | 119.5 | C8—C7—C6 | 119.7 (2) |
C3—C2—C1 | 118.8 (2) | C8—C7—H7A | 120.2 |
C3—C2—C5 | 120.57 (19) | C6—C7—H7A | 120.2 |
C1—C2—C5 | 120.5 (2) | C9—C8—C7 | 121.4 (2) |
C4—C3—C2 | 120.6 (2) | C9—C8—H8A | 119.3 |
C4—C3—H3A | 119.7 | C7—C8—H8A | 119.3 |
C2—C3—H3A | 119.7 | C8—C9—C10 | 119.1 (2) |
C3—C4—C3i | 120.1 (4) | C8—C9—H9A | 120.5 |
C3—C4—H4A | 120.0 | C10—C9—H9A | 120.5 |
C3i—C4—H4A | 120.0 | C11—C10—C9 | 120.2 (2) |
C2—C5—S1 | 106.92 (15) | C11—C10—H10A | 119.9 |
C2—C5—H5A | 110.3 | C9—C10—H10A | 119.9 |
S1—C5—H5A | 110.3 | C10—C11—C6 | 120.6 (2) |
C2—C5—H5B | 110.3 | C10—C11—H11A | 119.7 |
S1—C5—H5B | 110.3 | C6—C11—H11A | 119.7 |
H5A—C5—H5B | 108.6 | ||
C2i—C1—C2—C3 | 0.6 (4) | C5—S1—C6—C7 | 8.5 (2) |
C2i—C1—C2—C5 | −177.45 (19) | C11—C6—C7—C8 | 1.1 (4) |
C1—C2—C3—C4 | −0.6 (4) | S1—C6—C7—C8 | −178.7 (2) |
C5—C2—C3—C4 | 177.4 (2) | C6—C7—C8—C9 | −0.4 (4) |
C2—C3—C4—C3i | 0.7 (5) | C7—C8—C9—C10 | −0.5 (4) |
C3—C2—C5—S1 | −104.0 (2) | C8—C9—C10—C11 | 0.7 (4) |
C1—C2—C5—S1 | 74.0 (2) | C9—C10—C11—C6 | 0.0 (4) |
C6—S1—C5—C2 | 168.24 (15) | C7—C6—C11—C10 | −0.9 (4) |
C5—S1—C6—C11 | −171.28 (19) | S1—C6—C11—C10 | 178.9 (2) |
Symmetry code: (i) −x+1, y, z. |
Cg1 and Cg2 are the centroids of the C1–C4/C3'/C2' and C6–C11 rings, respectively. |
D—H···A | D—H | H···A | D···A | D—H···A |
C1—H1A···Cg1ii | 0.94 | 2.69 | 3.57 (5) | 155 |
C1—H1A···Cg1iii | 0.94 | 2.69 | 3.57 (5) | 155 |
C7—H7A···Cg2iv | 0.94 | 2.85 | 3.67 (6) | 147 |
Symmetry codes: (ii) −x+1, −y+1, z−1/2; (iii) x, −y+1, z−1/2; (iv) x, −y+1, z+1/2. |
Experimental details
Crystal data | |
Chemical formula | C20H18S2 |
Mr | 322.46 |
Crystal system, space group | Orthorhombic, Cmc21 |
Temperature (K) | 228 |
a, b, c (Å) | 32.072 (2), 7.6053 (5), 6.8224 (5) |
V (Å3) | 1664.1 (2) |
Z | 4 |
Radiation type | Mo Kα |
µ (mm−1) | 0.31 |
Crystal size (mm) | 0.76 × 0.15 × 0.10 |
Data collection | |
Diffractometer | Bruker APEXII CCD area-detector diffractometer |
Absorption correction | Multi-scan (SADABS; Bruker, 2001) |
Tmin, Tmax | 0.797, 0.970 |
No. of measured, independent and observed [I > 2σ(I)] reflections | 14404, 1689, 1417 |
Rint | 0.052 |
(sin θ/λ)max (Å−1) | 0.625 |
Refinement | |
R[F2 > 2σ(F2)], wR(F2), S | 0.035, 0.086, 1.12 |
No. of reflections | 1689 |
No. of parameters | 103 |
No. of restraints | 1 |
H-atom treatment | H-atom parameters constrained |
Δρmax, Δρmin (e Å−3) | 0.27, −0.31 |
Absolute structure | Flack (1983), 736 Friedel pairs |
Absolute structure parameter | 0.05 (12) |
Computer programs: APEX2 (Bruker, 2007), SAINT (Bruker, 2007), XS in SHELXTL (Sheldrick, 2008), XL in SHELXTL (Sheldrick, 2008), DIAMOND (Brandenburg, 2007), publCIF (McMahon & Westrip, 2008) and PLATON (Spek, 2009).
Cg1 and Cg2 are the centroids of the C1–C4/C3'/C2' and C6–C11 rings, respectively. |
D—H···A | D—H | H···A | D···A | D—H···A |
C1—H1A···Cg1i | 0.94 | 2.69 | 3.57 (5) | 154.6 |
C1—H1A···Cg1ii | 0.94 | 2.69 | 3.57 (5) | 154.6 |
C7—H7A···Cg2iii | 0.94 | 2.85 | 3.67 (6) | 146.7 |
Symmetry codes: (i) −x+1, −y+1, z−1/2; (ii) x, −y+1, z−1/2; (iii) x, −y+1, z+1/2. |
Acknowledgements
Funding was provided by a Department of Energy grant (DE–FG02-06ER15765 to RAK) and the Sandia LDRD progam (105932). Sandia is a multiprogram laboratory operated by Sandia Corporation, a Lockheed Martin Company, for the United States Department of Energy under Contract No. DE–AC04-94 A L85000. The diffractometer was purchased via a National Science Foundation CRIF:MU award to the University of New Mexico (CHE-0443580).
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The title compound, 1,3-bis(phenylthiomethyl)benzene, belongs to a class of transition metal ligands known as SCS-pincer ligands because of their tendency to act as tridentate chelators through one carbon and two sulfur atoms. The plane containing the thiophenyl ring is rotated almost perpendicular to the plane of the central phenyl ring, at an angle of 80.24 (10)°. This is comparable to the para-fluoro (Cervantes et al., 2006) and ortho-ethylester (Sillanpää et al., 1994) derivatives, whose interplanar angles measure 78.13 (10) and 87.66 (10)° respectively. Surprisingly, in the only other structurally characterized derivative, the perfluorinated 1,3-bis(pentafluorophenylthiomethyl)benzene (Arroyo et al., 2003), the rings are nearly co-planar with angles of 8.93 (10) and 10.85 (9)° between the central phenyl and the two independent flanking perfluoro rings. In both the title compound and the para-fluoro derivative, the flanking aryl rings are oriented on the same face of the central ring.
Although the structure of the title compound has not been previously determined, several of its metal complexes are known. Two types of coordination were observered in structurally characterized metal complexes. In the presence of silver perchlorate (Bu et al., 2002) or silver nitrate (Romero et al., 1996), the title compound acts as a bridging ligand through sulfur. In these two complexes, the flanking aryls remain on the same face of the central ring. With Pd (Loeb & Wisner, 1998), Pt (Kruithof et al., 2008) and Te (Bergholdt et al., 1998; Kobayashi et al., 2000) the much more common trihapto-SCS "pincer"-type coordination is observed and the thiophenyl rings rotate to opposite faces of the central phenyl. In all seven examples, the mirror plane present within the free ligand has been broken. The nearly perpendicular orientation of the planes of flanking aryls and the central phenyl (80.24 (10)°) is maintained in each of the Te (Bergholdt et al., 1998; Kobayashi et al., 2000) and Pt (Kruithof et al., 2008) complexes, which have interplanar angles ranging from 77.8 (3) to 89.7 (3)°. In contrast, the interplanar angles in the Ag and Pd complexes cover a much wider range within and across the molecules, measuring 44.1 (6) and 65.5 (6)° in the AgClO4 based-complex (Bu et al., 2002), 44.5 (3) and 70.4 (2)° for AgNO3 (Romero et al., 1996), and 40.3 (12) and 88.8 (13)° at one end of the Pd-rotaxane and 41.9 (12) and 89.4 (13)° at the other (Loeb & Wisner, 1998).