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Synthesis and 6H4CH2NH3]H2PO4
of 4-fluorobenzylammonium dihydrogen phosphate, [FCaUnité de Recherche, Catalyse et Matériaux pour l'Environnement et les Procédés, URCMEP, (UR11ES85), Faculté des Sciences de Gabès, Campus Universitaire, 6072 Gabès, Tunisia, bLaboratoire des Sciences des Matériaux et d'Environnement, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Sfax, BP 1171, Route de Soukra, 3018 Sfax, Tunisia, and cDipartimento di Chimica, Universitá di Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 17A, I-43124 Parma, Italy
*Correspondence e-mail: gianluca.calestani@unipr.it
The p-FC6H4CH2NH3]+·H2PO4−, contains one 4-fluorobenzylammonium cation and one dihydrogen phosphate anion. In the crystal, the H2PO4− anions are linked by O—H⋯O hydrogen bonds to build corrugated layers extending parallel to the ab plane. The FC6H4CH2NH3+ cations lie between these anionic layers to maximize the electrostatic interactions and are linked to the H2PO4− anions through N—H⋯O hydrogen bonds, forming a three-dimensional supramolecular network. Two hydrogen atoms belonging to the dihydrogen phosphate anion are statistically occupied due to disorder along the OH⋯HO direction.
of the title salt, [CCDC reference: 1516161
1. Chemical context
A hybrid compound is a material that involves both organic and inorganic components blended in the solid state on the molecular scale. Such materials allow the combination of the intended properties of both the organic and inorganic components when they self-assemble in the crystal. The resulting properties do not simply consist of the sum of the individual contributions, since they also strongly depend on the nature of the interactions established by the different components within the structure. The nature of the interactions has been used to divide organic–inorganic hybrid materials into two different classes, both of them being of technological interest. In class I, organic and inorganic components are connected together through strong chemical covalent or iono-covalent bonds; in class II, the two components are assembled by weaker interactions, such as hydrogen bonds and/or van der Waals and Coulombic interactions.
In particular, in considering hybrid systems belonging to class II, derivatives from orthophosphoric acid (H3PO4) are often associated with functionalized organic molecules (amines or amides) to produce organic–inorganic materials with potentially forceful hydrogen-bonding interactions between donor (D) and acceptor (A) components. Among these hybrid phosphates, the dihydrogen phosphates have received great interest over recent years. Indeed, these compounds can be considered the most stable organic phosphates and also the first to be studied in more detail. They have a technological interest in many realms, such as magnetism, electricity, optics and in biomaterials research (Adams, 1977; Hearn & Bugg, 1972).
In these compounds, the acidic dihydrogen phosphate anion H2PO4−, through the formation of O—H⋯O hydrogen bonds, gives rise to various topologies of anionic substructures. In the of 2-ammoniumbenzamide dihydrogen phosphate (Belghith et al., 2015), the H2PO4− tetrahedra are associated in pairs, forming centrosymmetric finite units, while in 2,3-dimethylanilinium dihydrogen phosphate (Rayes et al., 2004), they form a network composed of hydrogen-bonded chains. Two-dimensional anionic layers are observed in 4-chloroanilinium dihydrogen phosphate (Dhaouadi et al., 2008) and in 2-methylpiperazinediium dihydrogen phosphate (Choudhury et al., 2000), while in the of imidazolium dihydrogen phosphate (Blessing et al., 1986), the H2PO4− anions are linked by hydrogen bonds to form a three-dimensional cage-type network, inside which the cations are trapped. The varieties of the observed arrangements suggest that selected packing architectures can be designed by choosing an appropriate amine.
In order to enrich the knowledge of such kinds of hybrid materials and to investigate the effect of hydrogen bonds on chemical and structural features, we report here synthesis and p-FC6H4CH2NH3)+·H2PO4−.
analysis of the novel organic dihydrogen phosphate, (2. Structural commentary
The title hybrid salt crystallizes in the Pbcn with one para-fluorobenzylammonium cation and one dihydrogen phosphate anion in the (Fig. 1). Analysis of the P—O bond lengths clearly reveals the double-bond character of the P—O2 interaction [1.492 (4) Å], suggesting at the same time the possible protonation of the remaining O atoms showing longer bonds [P1—O1 = 1.561 (4), P1—O3 = 1.543 (4) and P1—O4 = 1.535 (4) Å]. This is confirmed by the presence of electron density peaks close to these oxygen atoms, compatible in terms of height and distance from hydrogen atoms. However, the showed half occupancy for two of the three hydrogen atoms, in agreement with charge neutrality and geometric considerations (both are disordered over two positions along the O–H⋯H–O direction involving the same oxygen atom in two adjacent anions). This explains the shorter P—O3 and P—O4 bond lengths, when compared with P1—O1, revealing at the same time the composition of the resulting anion as H2PO4−. The organic cation exhibits a regular configuration, with distances and angles in accordance to literature data (Wang et al., 2015; Klapötke et al., 2003).
3. Supramolecular features
The presence in the title compound of a number of donor and acceptor sites leads to the formation of a complex O—H⋯O and N—H⋯O hydrogen-bonding system (Table 1) which, supported by electrostatic and van der Waals interactions, gives rise to the formation of a stable three-dimensional supramolecular network. O1—H1O⋯O2, O3—H3O⋯O3 and O4—H4O⋯O4 hydrogen bonds connect each dihydrogen phosphate unit to an adjacent one, which results in the formation of an infinite two-dimensional corrugated layer of anions extending parallel to the ab plane (Fig. 2). In the inorganic supramolecular layers, rings with a graph-set ring motif (Etter, 1990) of R44(16) are found, lying at z ∼1/4 and 3/4. The 4-fluorobenzylammonium cations are trapped between the anionic layers to maximize the electrostatic interactions and are linked to the H2PO4− anions through N1—H1A⋯O2, N1—H1B⋯O3 and N1—H1C⋯O4 hydrogen bonds, forming R43(12) graph-set motifs with the O—H⋯O bonds. The cations are anchored on both sides of the H2PO4− anionic layer, resulting in the stacking of an alternating organic–inorganic supramolecular network (Fig. 3) along the c axis. Within the organic network, the dipolar character of the 4-fluorobenzylammonium molecule leads to an alternating antiparallel molecular stacking along the a axis that prevents significant π–π interactions between the aromatic rings but promotes van der Waals interactions as the unique intermolecular interactions between the organic molecules.
4. Database survey
A search of the Cambridge Structural Database (Version 5.37; last update February 2016; Groom et al., 2016) for related compounds showed that [FC6H4CH2NH3]·H2PO4, is isotypic with 4-chlorobenzylammonium dihydrogen phosphate (Dhaouadi et al., 2005). The main difference concerns the hydrogen atoms of the dihydrogen phosphate anion. These, ordered on two sites in the latter structure, are located over three positions for the title structure, two of which show half occupancy. In spite of this difference, the resulting anionic framework and the linking of the cations are analogous in both cases. A similarly organized anionic layer is formed by self-assembly of H2PO4− units in the structure of octane-1,8-diammonium bis(dihydrogen phosphate) (Mrad et al., 2011). Although the amine used is of different nature, the compound crystallizes in the same Pbcn and, approximately similar to the present case, two hydrogen atoms were found to be shared along the O—H—O bonding direction involving two H2PO4− groups. The difference in the organic moiety is reflected in a different anchoring of the cations on the anionic layers, building in this case a three-dimensional hydrogen-bonded network.
5. Synthesis and crystallization
Crystals of the title compound were grown by dissolving in water p-fluorobenzylamine (purity 99%, Sigma–Aldrich) and orthophosphoric acid (85%wt, d = 1.7 kg cm−3) in a 1:1 molar ratio. The resulting mixture was heated slightly (330 K) under constant stirring for 3 h to obtain a clear solution. Schematically the reaction can be written as follows:
F(C6H4)CH2NH2 + H3PO4 → [FC6H4CH2NH3]·H2PO4
The solution thus obtained was placed in a Petri dish and kept for crystallization at room temperature without disturbance. Single crystals of the title compound, suitable for X-ray
were obtained after one week (yield 82%).6. Refinement
Crystal data, data collection and structure . The H atoms were located in a difference Fourier map and refined as riding, with O—H = 0.82 Å, N—H = 0.89 Å, C—H = 0.93 and 0.97 Å. A rotating model was used for the OH and ammonium groups. The dihydrogen phosphate H atoms were refined with Uiso(H) = 1.5Ueq(O), those of the ammonium H atoms with Uiso(H) = 1.5Ueq(N), and the remaining ones with Uiso(H) = 1.2Ueq(C). Two H atoms were found to be disordered over two positions along the O—H⋯H—O direction involving the same oxygen atom in two adjacent anions and refined with half occupancy. An outlier (524) was omitted in the last cycles of the refinement.
details are summarized in Table 2Supporting information
CCDC reference: 1516161
https://doi.org/10.1107/S2056989016018090/wm5335sup1.cif
contains datablock I. DOI:Structure factors: contains datablock I. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1107/S2056989016018090/wm5335Isup2.hkl
Supporting information file. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1107/S2056989016018090/wm5335Isup3.cml
Data collection: APEX2 (Bruker, 2008); cell
SAINT (Bruker, 2008); data reduction: SAINT (Bruker, 2008); program(s) used to solve structure: SHELXT (Sheldrick, 2015a); program(s) used to refine structure: SHELXL2014 (Sheldrick, 2015b); molecular graphics: ORTEP-3 for Windows (Farrugia, 2012) and VESTA (Momma & Izumi, 2011); software used to prepare material for publication: SHELXL2014 (Sheldrick, 2015b).C7H9FN+·H2PO4− | Dx = 1.526 Mg m−3 |
Mr = 223.14 | Mo Kα radiation, λ = 0.71073 Å |
Orthorhombic, Pbcn | Cell parameters from 4573 reflections |
a = 7.1630 (8) Å | θ = 5.5–37.8° |
b = 9.1309 (10) Å | µ = 0.29 mm−1 |
c = 29.694 (3) Å | T = 294 K |
V = 1942.1 (4) Å3 | Prism, colourless |
Z = 8 | 0.36 × 0.31 × 0.27 mm |
F(000) = 928 |
Bruker SMART CCD diffractometer | 1780 reflections with I > 2σ(I) |
ω scan | Rint = 0.031 |
Absorption correction: multi-scan (SADABS; Bruker, 2008) | θmax = 25.5°, θmin = 1.4° |
Tmin = 0.813, Tmax = 0.846 | h = −8→8 |
19365 measured reflections | k = −11→11 |
1803 independent reflections | l = −35→35 |
Refinement on F2 | 0 restraints |
Least-squares matrix: full | Hydrogen site location: inferred from neighbouring sites |
R[F2 > 2σ(F2)] = 0.077 | H-atom parameters constrained |
wR(F2) = 0.170 | w = 1/[σ2(Fo2) + 11.9717P] where P = (Fo2 + 2Fc2)/3 |
S = 1.33 | (Δ/σ)max < 0.001 |
1803 reflections | Δρmax = 0.52 e Å−3 |
131 parameters | Δρmin = −0.65 e Å−3 |
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. |
x | y | z | Uiso*/Ueq | Occ. (<1) | |
P1 | 0.7518 (2) | 0.61709 (14) | 0.29940 (4) | 0.0247 (3) | |
O1 | 0.7675 (6) | 0.7342 (4) | 0.33752 (11) | 0.0346 (9) | |
H1O | 0.7332 | 0.8139 | 0.3279 | 0.052* | |
O2 | 0.8598 (5) | 0.4862 (4) | 0.31440 (13) | 0.0328 (9) | |
O3 | 0.8281 (5) | 0.6833 (4) | 0.25529 (12) | 0.0325 (9) | |
H3O | 0.9425 | 0.6786 | 0.2553 | 0.049* | 0.5 |
O4 | 0.5439 (5) | 0.5863 (4) | 0.29115 (12) | 0.0336 (9) | |
H4O | 0.5230 | 0.5869 | 0.2640 | 0.050* | 0.5 |
N1 | 0.2305 (6) | 0.3951 (5) | 0.31025 (13) | 0.0304 (10) | |
H1A | 0.1169 | 0.4344 | 0.3092 | 0.046* | |
H1B | 0.2441 | 0.3322 | 0.2876 | 0.046* | |
H1C | 0.3158 | 0.4655 | 0.3079 | 0.046* | |
C1 | 0.2552 (9) | 0.3166 (6) | 0.35386 (16) | 0.0334 (12) | |
H1D | 0.3705 | 0.2609 | 0.3531 | 0.040* | |
H1E | 0.1530 | 0.2482 | 0.3580 | 0.040* | |
C2 | 0.2606 (8) | 0.4220 (6) | 0.39291 (16) | 0.0297 (11) | |
C3 | 0.0985 (9) | 0.4714 (7) | 0.4122 (2) | 0.0427 (15) | |
H3 | −0.0159 | 0.4388 | 0.4013 | 0.051* | |
C4 | 0.1037 (11) | 0.5698 (8) | 0.4480 (2) | 0.0541 (19) | |
H4 | −0.0059 | 0.6043 | 0.4610 | 0.065* | |
C5 | 0.2724 (12) | 0.6139 (8) | 0.46325 (19) | 0.0543 (18) | |
C6 | 0.4362 (11) | 0.5685 (8) | 0.4453 (2) | 0.0558 (19) | |
H6 | 0.5498 | 0.6013 | 0.4566 | 0.067* | |
C7 | 0.4285 (9) | 0.4709 (7) | 0.4093 (2) | 0.0442 (15) | |
H7 | 0.5388 | 0.4383 | 0.3961 | 0.053* | |
F1 | 0.2783 (8) | 0.7094 (5) | 0.49869 (14) | 0.0887 (17) |
U11 | U22 | U33 | U12 | U13 | U23 | |
P1 | 0.0248 (6) | 0.0201 (6) | 0.0293 (6) | 0.0016 (5) | −0.0057 (6) | 0.0010 (5) |
O1 | 0.043 (2) | 0.0255 (18) | 0.0348 (19) | 0.0029 (18) | −0.0126 (19) | −0.0025 (16) |
O2 | 0.0263 (19) | 0.0222 (17) | 0.050 (2) | 0.0002 (16) | −0.0069 (18) | 0.0051 (17) |
O3 | 0.0229 (18) | 0.042 (2) | 0.0326 (19) | 0.0039 (18) | 0.0007 (16) | 0.0095 (17) |
O4 | 0.0226 (18) | 0.048 (2) | 0.0299 (19) | −0.0048 (18) | −0.0031 (16) | 0.0030 (18) |
N1 | 0.029 (2) | 0.032 (2) | 0.030 (2) | −0.001 (2) | 0.001 (2) | −0.0028 (19) |
C1 | 0.037 (3) | 0.027 (3) | 0.036 (3) | 0.004 (3) | −0.002 (3) | 0.002 (2) |
C2 | 0.032 (3) | 0.029 (3) | 0.028 (2) | −0.001 (2) | −0.003 (2) | 0.003 (2) |
C3 | 0.039 (3) | 0.050 (4) | 0.040 (3) | −0.001 (3) | 0.003 (3) | −0.003 (3) |
C4 | 0.063 (5) | 0.061 (4) | 0.039 (4) | 0.013 (4) | 0.009 (3) | −0.006 (3) |
C5 | 0.082 (5) | 0.048 (4) | 0.033 (3) | 0.003 (4) | −0.006 (4) | −0.010 (3) |
C6 | 0.060 (5) | 0.060 (4) | 0.047 (4) | −0.011 (4) | −0.013 (4) | −0.009 (3) |
C7 | 0.042 (3) | 0.050 (4) | 0.041 (3) | 0.007 (3) | −0.004 (3) | −0.003 (3) |
F1 | 0.127 (4) | 0.084 (3) | 0.055 (2) | 0.002 (3) | −0.010 (3) | −0.039 (2) |
P1—O2 | 1.492 (4) | C1—H1E | 0.9700 |
P1—O4 | 1.535 (4) | C2—C3 | 1.371 (8) |
P1—O3 | 1.543 (4) | C2—C7 | 1.372 (8) |
P1—O1 | 1.561 (4) | C3—C4 | 1.391 (9) |
O1—H1O | 0.8200 | C3—H3 | 0.9300 |
O3—H3O | 0.8200 | C4—C5 | 1.352 (11) |
O4—H4O | 0.8200 | C4—H4 | 0.9300 |
N1—C1 | 1.491 (6) | C5—C6 | 1.354 (11) |
N1—H1A | 0.8900 | C5—F1 | 1.367 (7) |
N1—H1B | 0.8900 | C6—C7 | 1.393 (9) |
N1—H1C | 0.8900 | C6—H6 | 0.9300 |
C1—C2 | 1.508 (7) | C7—H7 | 0.9300 |
C1—H1D | 0.9700 | ||
O2—P1—O4 | 113.9 (2) | H1D—C1—H1E | 108.0 |
O2—P1—O3 | 112.5 (2) | C3—C2—C7 | 119.2 (5) |
O4—P1—O3 | 106.3 (2) | C3—C2—C1 | 120.7 (5) |
O2—P1—O1 | 107.1 (2) | C7—C2—C1 | 120.2 (5) |
O4—P1—O1 | 108.1 (2) | C2—C3—C4 | 120.6 (6) |
O3—P1—O1 | 108.8 (2) | C2—C3—H3 | 119.7 |
P1—O1—H1O | 109.5 | C4—C3—H3 | 119.7 |
P1—O3—H3O | 109.5 | C5—C4—C3 | 118.2 (7) |
P1—O4—H4O | 109.5 | C5—C4—H4 | 120.9 |
C1—N1—H1A | 109.5 | C3—C4—H4 | 120.9 |
C1—N1—H1B | 109.5 | C4—C5—C6 | 123.4 (6) |
H1A—N1—H1B | 109.5 | C4—C5—F1 | 118.4 (7) |
C1—N1—H1C | 109.5 | C6—C5—F1 | 118.2 (7) |
H1A—N1—H1C | 109.5 | C5—C6—C7 | 117.7 (7) |
H1B—N1—H1C | 109.5 | C5—C6—H6 | 121.2 |
N1—C1—C2 | 111.4 (4) | C7—C6—H6 | 121.2 |
N1—C1—H1D | 109.4 | C2—C7—C6 | 121.0 (6) |
C2—C1—H1D | 109.4 | C2—C7—H7 | 119.5 |
N1—C1—H1E | 109.4 | C6—C7—H7 | 119.5 |
C2—C1—H1E | 109.4 |
D—H···A | D—H | H···A | D···A | D—H···A |
O1—H1O···O2i | 0.82 | 1.75 | 2.569 (5) | 172 |
O3—H3O···O3ii | 0.82 | 1.67 | 2.483 (5) | 168 |
O4—H4O···O4iii | 0.82 | 1.71 | 2.523 (5) | 174 |
N1—H1A···O2iv | 0.89 | 1.91 | 2.785 (6) | 169 |
N1—H1B···O3v | 0.89 | 1.96 | 2.831 (6) | 167 |
N1—H1C···O4 | 0.89 | 2.03 | 2.900 (6) | 164 |
Symmetry codes: (i) −x+3/2, y+1/2, z; (ii) −x+2, y, −z+1/2; (iii) −x+1, y, −z+1/2; (iv) x−1, y, z; (v) x−1/2, y−1/2, −z+1/2. |
Acknowledgements
We would like to acknowledge the support provided by the Secretary of State Scientific Research and Technology of Tunisia.
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