organic compounds
1,3-Bis(2-methoxyphenyl)thiourea
aNelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Summerstrand Campus, Department of Chemistry, University Way, Summerstrand, PO Box 77000, Port Elizabeth 6031, South Africa
*Correspondence e-mail: richard.betz@webmail.co.za
In the title compound, C15H16N2O2S, the N–C(=S) bond lengths are indicative of the presence of amide-type resonance. The dihedral angles between the thiourea unit and the attached aromatic rings are 59.80 (5) and 73.41 (4)° while the dihedral angle between the rings is 56.83 (4)°. In the crystal, inversion dimers linked by pairs of N—H⋯S hydrogen bonds occur. An N—H⋯π interaction is observed for the second amino group. The shortest centroid–centroid distance between two aromatic systems is 4.0958 (8) Å.
Related literature
For related structures, see: Shashidhar et al. (2006); Muhammed et al. (2007); Kuan & Tiekink (2007); Srivastava et al. (2010). For further synthetic details, see: Voss & Walter (1968). For graph-set analysis of hydrogen bonds, see: Etter et al. (1990); Bernstein et al. (1995). For general information about coordination chemistry, see: Gade (1998). Structures containing similar bond lengths were retrieved from the Cambridge Structural Database (Allen, 2002).
Experimental
Crystal data
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Data collection
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Refinement
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Data collection: SMART (Bruker, 1998); cell SAINT (Bruker, 1998); data reduction: SAINT; program(s) used to solve structure: SHELXS97 (Sheldrick, 2008); program(s) used to refine structure: SHELXL97 (Sheldrick, 2008); molecular graphics: ORTEP-3 (Farrugia, 1997) and Mercury (Macrae et al., 2008); software used to prepare material for publication: SHELXL97 and PLATON (Spek, 2009).
Supporting information
10.1107/S1600536811040852/hb6427sup1.cif
contains datablocks I, global. DOI:Supporting information file. DOI: 10.1107/S1600536811040852/hb6427Isup2.cdx
Structure factors: contains datablock I. DOI: 10.1107/S1600536811040852/hb6427Isup3.hkl
Supporting information file. DOI: 10.1107/S1600536811040852/hb6427Isup4.cml
The title compound was prepared upon reacting Lawesson's reagent with the corresponding amide in analogy to a published procedure (Voss & Walter, 1968).
Carbon-bound H atoms were placed in calculated positions (C—H 0.95 Å) and were included in the
in the riding model approximation, with U(H) set to 1.2Ueq(C). The H atoms of the methyl groups were allowed to rotate with a fixed angle around the C—C bond to best fit the experimental electron density (HFIX 137 in the SHELX program suite (Sheldrick, 2008), with U(H) set to 1.5Ueq(C). Both nitrogen-bound H atoms were located on a difference Fourier map and refined freely.Data collection: SMART (Bruker, 1998); cell
SAINT (Bruker, 1998); data reduction: SAINT (Bruker, 1998); program(s) used to solve structure: SHELXS97 (Sheldrick, 2008); program(s) used to refine structure: SHELXL97 (Sheldrick, 2008); molecular graphics: ORTEP-3 (Farrugia, 1997) and Mercury (Macrae et al., 2008); software used to prepare material for publication: SHELXL97 (Sheldrick, 2008) and PLATON (Spek, 2009).C15H16N2O2S | Z = 8 |
Mr = 288.36 | F(000) = 1216 |
Monoclinic, C2/c | Dx = 1.329 Mg m−3 |
Hall symbol: -C 2yc | Mo Kα radiation, λ = 0.71073 Å |
a = 14.3187 (8) Å | µ = 0.23 mm−1 |
b = 12.8628 (7) Å | T = 173 K |
c = 16.1168 (10) Å | Plate, colourless |
β = 103.790 (3)° | 0.42 × 0.36 × 0.14 mm |
V = 2882.8 (3) Å3 |
Bruker SMART CCD diffractometer | 2765 reflections with I > 2σ(I) |
Radiation source: fine-focus sealed tube | Rint = 0.058 |
Graphite monochromator | θmax = 28.3°, θmin = 2.2° |
ϕ and ω scans | h = −16→19 |
10474 measured reflections | k = −14→17 |
3567 independent reflections | l = −17→21 |
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)] = 0.033 | Hydrogen site location: inferred from neighbouring sites |
wR(F2) = 0.090 | H atoms treated by a mixture of independent and constrained refinement |
S = 1.05 | w = 1/[σ2(Fo2) + (0.0437P)2 + 0.1621P] where P = (Fo2 + 2Fc2)/3 |
3567 reflections | (Δ/σ)max < 0.001 |
191 parameters | Δρmax = 0.25 e Å−3 |
0 restraints | Δρmin = −0.23 e Å−3 |
C15H16N2O2S | V = 2882.8 (3) Å3 |
Mr = 288.36 | Z = 8 |
Monoclinic, C2/c | Mo Kα radiation |
a = 14.3187 (8) Å | µ = 0.23 mm−1 |
b = 12.8628 (7) Å | T = 173 K |
c = 16.1168 (10) Å | 0.42 × 0.36 × 0.14 mm |
β = 103.790 (3)° |
Bruker SMART CCD diffractometer | 2765 reflections with I > 2σ(I) |
10474 measured reflections | Rint = 0.058 |
3567 independent reflections |
R[F2 > 2σ(F2)] = 0.033 | 0 restraints |
wR(F2) = 0.090 | H atoms treated by a mixture of independent and constrained refinement |
S = 1.05 | Δρmax = 0.25 e Å−3 |
3567 reflections | Δρmin = −0.23 e Å−3 |
191 parameters |
x | y | z | Uiso*/Ueq | ||
S1 | −0.01726 (2) | 0.20091 (3) | 0.11713 (2) | 0.02289 (10) | |
O1 | 0.09218 (7) | 0.42621 (7) | −0.03050 (6) | 0.0323 (2) | |
O2 | 0.24916 (6) | 0.20317 (7) | 0.36118 (6) | 0.0291 (2) | |
N1 | 0.14650 (8) | 0.28483 (9) | 0.09695 (7) | 0.0251 (3) | |
H71 | 0.1955 (12) | 0.3130 (13) | 0.1153 (10) | 0.036 (5)* | |
N2 | 0.12052 (7) | 0.29144 (9) | 0.23257 (7) | 0.0232 (2) | |
H72 | 0.0931 (11) | 0.2653 (11) | 0.2676 (10) | 0.028 (4)* | |
C1 | 0.08967 (8) | 0.26236 (9) | 0.15016 (8) | 0.0197 (3) | |
C11 | 0.12847 (8) | 0.25261 (10) | 0.00981 (8) | 0.0223 (3) | |
C12 | 0.10350 (9) | 0.32650 (10) | −0.05553 (8) | 0.0238 (3) | |
C13 | 0.09201 (9) | 0.29468 (11) | −0.14003 (9) | 0.0288 (3) | |
H13 | 0.0771 | 0.3444 | −0.1849 | 0.035* | |
C14 | 0.10227 (9) | 0.19063 (12) | −0.15889 (9) | 0.0307 (3) | |
H14 | 0.0929 | 0.1695 | −0.2168 | 0.037* | |
C15 | 0.12589 (10) | 0.11744 (11) | −0.09458 (9) | 0.0311 (3) | |
H15 | 0.1324 | 0.0463 | −0.1079 | 0.037* | |
C16 | 0.14008 (9) | 0.14937 (11) | −0.00994 (9) | 0.0281 (3) | |
H16 | 0.1579 | 0.0998 | 0.0347 | 0.034* | |
C17 | 0.06484 (12) | 0.50262 (12) | −0.09648 (10) | 0.0408 (4) | |
H171 | 0.1170 | 0.5116 | −0.1257 | 0.061* | |
H172 | 0.0523 | 0.5689 | −0.0712 | 0.061* | |
H173 | 0.0066 | 0.4796 | −0.1377 | 0.061* | |
C21 | 0.20704 (8) | 0.34620 (10) | 0.26996 (8) | 0.0215 (3) | |
C22 | 0.27304 (8) | 0.30070 (10) | 0.33908 (8) | 0.0218 (3) | |
C23 | 0.35552 (9) | 0.35490 (11) | 0.37961 (8) | 0.0257 (3) | |
H23 | 0.3997 | 0.3251 | 0.4272 | 0.031* | |
C24 | 0.37282 (9) | 0.45274 (11) | 0.35004 (9) | 0.0287 (3) | |
H24 | 0.4298 | 0.4889 | 0.3770 | 0.034* | |
C25 | 0.30840 (10) | 0.49852 (10) | 0.28199 (9) | 0.0299 (3) | |
H25 | 0.3210 | 0.5655 | 0.2623 | 0.036* | |
C26 | 0.22491 (9) | 0.44499 (11) | 0.24273 (9) | 0.0267 (3) | |
H26 | 0.1797 | 0.4765 | 0.1968 | 0.032* | |
C27 | 0.31264 (10) | 0.15497 (12) | 0.43256 (10) | 0.0358 (3) | |
H271 | 0.3761 | 0.1461 | 0.4205 | 0.054* | |
H272 | 0.2869 | 0.0869 | 0.4430 | 0.054* | |
H273 | 0.3185 | 0.1989 | 0.4832 | 0.054* |
U11 | U22 | U33 | U12 | U13 | U23 | |
S1 | 0.01794 (15) | 0.03006 (19) | 0.02002 (17) | −0.00105 (12) | 0.00324 (11) | −0.00245 (13) |
O1 | 0.0424 (6) | 0.0268 (5) | 0.0263 (5) | 0.0036 (4) | 0.0056 (4) | 0.0003 (4) |
O2 | 0.0276 (5) | 0.0279 (5) | 0.0269 (5) | −0.0045 (4) | −0.0032 (4) | 0.0055 (4) |
N1 | 0.0220 (5) | 0.0345 (7) | 0.0186 (6) | −0.0060 (5) | 0.0046 (4) | −0.0010 (5) |
N2 | 0.0198 (5) | 0.0333 (6) | 0.0162 (5) | −0.0042 (4) | 0.0035 (4) | 0.0021 (5) |
C1 | 0.0190 (5) | 0.0199 (6) | 0.0193 (6) | 0.0044 (4) | 0.0026 (5) | 0.0035 (5) |
C11 | 0.0195 (5) | 0.0302 (7) | 0.0183 (6) | −0.0015 (5) | 0.0065 (5) | −0.0004 (6) |
C12 | 0.0218 (6) | 0.0275 (7) | 0.0225 (7) | 0.0000 (5) | 0.0059 (5) | −0.0017 (5) |
C13 | 0.0274 (6) | 0.0381 (8) | 0.0206 (7) | 0.0024 (6) | 0.0052 (5) | 0.0017 (6) |
C14 | 0.0256 (6) | 0.0439 (9) | 0.0233 (7) | −0.0013 (6) | 0.0072 (5) | −0.0096 (6) |
C15 | 0.0312 (7) | 0.0299 (8) | 0.0354 (8) | −0.0016 (5) | 0.0144 (6) | −0.0063 (6) |
C16 | 0.0277 (6) | 0.0292 (7) | 0.0296 (8) | −0.0007 (5) | 0.0112 (5) | 0.0018 (6) |
C17 | 0.0526 (9) | 0.0313 (8) | 0.0366 (9) | 0.0041 (7) | 0.0067 (7) | 0.0071 (7) |
C21 | 0.0201 (5) | 0.0267 (7) | 0.0181 (6) | −0.0015 (5) | 0.0056 (5) | −0.0035 (5) |
C22 | 0.0225 (6) | 0.0226 (6) | 0.0205 (6) | −0.0003 (5) | 0.0056 (5) | −0.0025 (5) |
C23 | 0.0230 (6) | 0.0308 (8) | 0.0214 (7) | 0.0010 (5) | 0.0016 (5) | −0.0049 (6) |
C24 | 0.0267 (6) | 0.0289 (8) | 0.0306 (8) | −0.0052 (5) | 0.0074 (6) | −0.0120 (6) |
C25 | 0.0367 (7) | 0.0210 (7) | 0.0342 (8) | −0.0026 (5) | 0.0129 (6) | −0.0032 (6) |
C26 | 0.0293 (6) | 0.0263 (7) | 0.0246 (7) | 0.0035 (5) | 0.0067 (5) | −0.0002 (6) |
C27 | 0.0371 (7) | 0.0326 (8) | 0.0321 (8) | 0.0016 (6) | −0.0027 (6) | 0.0081 (7) |
S1—C1 | 1.6923 (12) | C15—H15 | 0.9500 |
O1—C12 | 1.3658 (16) | C16—H16 | 0.9500 |
O1—C17 | 1.4324 (17) | C17—H171 | 0.9800 |
O2—C22 | 1.3695 (15) | C17—H172 | 0.9800 |
O2—C27 | 1.4266 (16) | C17—H173 | 0.9800 |
N1—C1 | 1.3469 (15) | C21—C26 | 1.3879 (19) |
N1—C11 | 1.4275 (16) | C21—C22 | 1.4053 (17) |
N1—H71 | 0.782 (16) | C22—C23 | 1.3928 (17) |
N2—C1 | 1.3488 (16) | C23—C24 | 1.3887 (19) |
N2—C21 | 1.4277 (15) | C23—H23 | 0.9500 |
N2—H72 | 0.831 (16) | C24—C25 | 1.385 (2) |
C11—C16 | 1.3848 (18) | C24—H24 | 0.9500 |
C11—C12 | 1.4003 (18) | C25—C26 | 1.3939 (19) |
C12—C13 | 1.3937 (19) | C25—H25 | 0.9500 |
C13—C14 | 1.388 (2) | C26—H26 | 0.9500 |
C13—H13 | 0.9500 | C27—H271 | 0.9800 |
C14—C15 | 1.381 (2) | C27—H272 | 0.9800 |
C14—H14 | 0.9500 | C27—H273 | 0.9800 |
C15—C16 | 1.392 (2) | ||
C12—O1—C17 | 117.11 (11) | O1—C17—H172 | 109.5 |
C22—O2—C27 | 117.21 (10) | H171—C17—H172 | 109.5 |
C1—N1—C11 | 124.69 (11) | O1—C17—H173 | 109.5 |
C1—N1—H71 | 118.9 (12) | H171—C17—H173 | 109.5 |
C11—N1—H71 | 116.2 (12) | H172—C17—H173 | 109.5 |
C1—N2—C21 | 126.87 (11) | C26—C21—C22 | 119.49 (11) |
C1—N2—H72 | 117.3 (10) | C26—C21—N2 | 121.67 (11) |
C21—N2—H72 | 114.6 (10) | C22—C21—N2 | 118.75 (11) |
N1—C1—N2 | 117.50 (11) | O2—C22—C23 | 124.96 (12) |
N1—C1—S1 | 122.59 (10) | O2—C22—C21 | 115.17 (11) |
N2—C1—S1 | 119.91 (9) | C23—C22—C21 | 119.87 (12) |
C16—C11—C12 | 120.07 (12) | C24—C23—C22 | 119.56 (12) |
C16—C11—N1 | 120.07 (12) | C24—C23—H23 | 120.2 |
C12—C11—N1 | 119.79 (12) | C22—C23—H23 | 120.2 |
O1—C12—C13 | 124.73 (12) | C25—C24—C23 | 121.17 (12) |
O1—C12—C11 | 116.24 (11) | C25—C24—H24 | 119.4 |
C13—C12—C11 | 119.02 (13) | C23—C24—H24 | 119.4 |
C14—C13—C12 | 120.20 (13) | C24—C25—C26 | 119.12 (13) |
C14—C13—H13 | 119.9 | C24—C25—H25 | 120.4 |
C12—C13—H13 | 119.9 | C26—C25—H25 | 120.4 |
C15—C14—C13 | 120.84 (13) | C21—C26—C25 | 120.76 (13) |
C15—C14—H14 | 119.6 | C21—C26—H26 | 119.6 |
C13—C14—H14 | 119.6 | C25—C26—H26 | 119.6 |
C14—C15—C16 | 119.12 (13) | O2—C27—H271 | 109.5 |
C14—C15—H15 | 120.4 | O2—C27—H272 | 109.5 |
C16—C15—H15 | 120.4 | H271—C27—H272 | 109.5 |
C11—C16—C15 | 120.70 (13) | O2—C27—H273 | 109.5 |
C11—C16—H16 | 119.6 | H271—C27—H273 | 109.5 |
C15—C16—H16 | 119.6 | H272—C27—H273 | 109.5 |
O1—C17—H171 | 109.5 | ||
C11—N1—C1—N2 | 174.85 (11) | N1—C11—C16—C15 | −177.83 (11) |
C11—N1—C1—S1 | −5.62 (18) | C14—C15—C16—C11 | 1.57 (19) |
C21—N2—C1—N1 | 1.47 (19) | C1—N2—C21—C26 | 60.94 (18) |
C21—N2—C1—S1 | −178.08 (10) | C1—N2—C21—C22 | −122.51 (14) |
C1—N1—C11—C16 | −71.93 (16) | C27—O2—C22—C23 | 1.70 (18) |
C1—N1—C11—C12 | 111.13 (14) | C27—O2—C22—C21 | −178.28 (11) |
C17—O1—C12—C13 | 1.17 (18) | C26—C21—C22—O2 | −179.98 (11) |
C17—O1—C12—C11 | −178.84 (12) | N2—C21—C22—O2 | 3.39 (16) |
C16—C11—C12—O1 | 179.11 (11) | C26—C21—C22—C23 | 0.04 (18) |
N1—C11—C12—O1 | −3.95 (16) | N2—C21—C22—C23 | −176.59 (11) |
C16—C11—C12—C13 | −0.90 (17) | O2—C22—C23—C24 | 178.63 (11) |
N1—C11—C12—C13 | 176.04 (11) | C21—C22—C23—C24 | −1.39 (19) |
O1—C12—C13—C14 | −177.99 (12) | C22—C23—C24—C25 | 1.41 (19) |
C11—C12—C13—C14 | 2.02 (18) | C23—C24—C25—C26 | −0.1 (2) |
C12—C13—C14—C15 | −1.4 (2) | C22—C21—C26—C25 | 1.34 (19) |
C13—C14—C15—C16 | −0.4 (2) | N2—C21—C26—C25 | 177.86 (12) |
C12—C11—C16—C15 | −0.89 (18) | C24—C25—C26—C21 | −1.3 (2) |
Cg1 is the centroid of the C11–C16 ring. |
D—H···A | D—H | H···A | D···A | D—H···A |
N2—H72···S1i | 0.831 (16) | 2.506 (17) | 3.3343 (12) | 174.3 (14) |
N1—H71···Cg1ii | 0.782 (16) | 2.967 (18) | 3.5127 (13) | 129.1 (14) |
Symmetry codes: (i) −x, y, −z+1/2; (ii) −x+1/2, −y+1/2, −z. |
Experimental details
Crystal data | |
Chemical formula | C15H16N2O2S |
Mr | 288.36 |
Crystal system, space group | Monoclinic, C2/c |
Temperature (K) | 173 |
a, b, c (Å) | 14.3187 (8), 12.8628 (7), 16.1168 (10) |
β (°) | 103.790 (3) |
V (Å3) | 2882.8 (3) |
Z | 8 |
Radiation type | Mo Kα |
µ (mm−1) | 0.23 |
Crystal size (mm) | 0.42 × 0.36 × 0.14 |
Data collection | |
Diffractometer | Bruker SMART CCD diffractometer |
Absorption correction | – |
No. of measured, independent and observed [I > 2σ(I)] reflections | 10474, 3567, 2765 |
Rint | 0.058 |
(sin θ/λ)max (Å−1) | 0.666 |
Refinement | |
R[F2 > 2σ(F2)], wR(F2), S | 0.033, 0.090, 1.05 |
No. of reflections | 3567 |
No. of parameters | 191 |
H-atom treatment | H atoms treated by a mixture of independent and constrained refinement |
Δρmax, Δρmin (e Å−3) | 0.25, −0.23 |
Computer programs: SMART (Bruker, 1998), SAINT (Bruker, 1998), SHELXS97 (Sheldrick, 2008), ORTEP-3 (Farrugia, 1997) and Mercury (Macrae et al., 2008), SHELXL97 (Sheldrick, 2008) and PLATON (Spek, 2009).
Cg1 is the centroid of the C11–C16 ring. |
D—H···A | D—H | H···A | D···A | D—H···A |
N2—H72···S1i | 0.831 (16) | 2.506 (17) | 3.3343 (12) | 174.3 (14) |
N1—H71···Cg1ii | 0.782 (16) | 2.967 (18) | 3.5127 (13) | 129.1 (14) |
Symmetry codes: (i) −x, y, −z+1/2; (ii) −x+1/2, −y+1/2, −z. |
Acknowledgements
The authors thank Dr Marc van der Vyver for helpful discussions.
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Chelate ligands have found widespread use in coordination chemistry due to the enhanced thermodynamic stability of resultant coordination compounds in relation to coordination compounds exclusively applying comparable monodentate ligands (Gade, 1998). Combining different donor atoms, a molecular set-up to accomodate a large variety of metal centers of variable Lewis acidity is at hand. In this aspect, the title compound, 1,3-bis(2-methoxyphenyl)thiourea, (I), seemed of interest due to its possible use as a strictly neutral or, depending on the pH value, as an anionic or cationic ligand. In addition, due to the set-up of its functional groups, it may act as mono- or multidentate ligand offering the possibility to create chelate rings of various size. The intriguing combination of a secondary amino group, a thioketo group as well as methylether groups classifies the title compound as a highly versatile ligand. To enable comparative studies in terms of bond lengths and angles in envisioned coordination compounds, we determined the molecular and crystal structure of the title compound. Information about the crystal structure of 1,3-bis(4-methoxyphenyl)thiourea (Shashidhar et al., 2006), 1,3-bis(2-methylphenyl)thiourea, (Muhammed et al., 2007; Kuan & Tiekink, 2007) and 1,3-bis(phenyl)thiourea (Srivastava et al., 2010) is available in the literature.
N–C=S bond lengths (dN–C: 1.3469 (15) Å and 1.3488 (16) Å, respectively) are in good agreement with values deposited for comparable compounds with the Cambridge Structural Database (Allen, 2002) and are indicative of admide-type resonance between the atoms of this entity. This finding is further corroborated by the planarity of the S=CN2 moiety (r.m.s. of all fitted atoms = 0.0015 Å). The aromatic substituents on the nitrogen atom adopt syn and anti conformation with respect to the sulfur atom. The least-squares planes defined by the carbon atoms of the respective phenyl rings enclose an angle of 56.83 (4) ° while the individual planes defined by the phenyl rings intersect with the least-squares plane defined by the atoms of the central S=CN2 moiety at angles of 59.80 (5) ° and 73.41 (4) ° (Fig. 1, Fig. 2).
In the crystal, the hydrogen atoms of the secondary amine groups participate in two different types of intermolecular interactions. While one of the protons is part of a classical hydrogen bond of the N–H···S type, the other amine group's hydrogen atom forms a contact to one of the aromatic systems. The classical hydrogen bonds connect the molecules to centrosymmetric dimers orientated approximately perpendicular to the crystallographic b axis. In terms of graph-set analysis (Etter et al., 1990; Bernstein et al., 1995), the descriptor for the classical hydrogen bonds is R22(8) on the unitary level. The shortest intercentroid distance between two aromatic systems was measured at 4.0958 (8) Å (Fig. 3).
The packing of the title compound in the crystal structure is shown in Figure 4.