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C—H⋯O contacts in the
of 1,3-dithiane 1,1,3,3-tetraoxidea624 Erlen Rd., Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462 , USA, bDept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556-5670, USA, and c2 Baydons Lane, Chippenham SN15 3JX, UK
*Correspondence e-mail: r.harlow.whereareyou@gmail.com, aoliver2@nd.edu
The 4H8O4S2, has been determined to examine the intermolecular C—H⋯O hydrogen bonds in a small molecule with highly polarized hydrogen atoms. The crystals are monoclinic, Pn, with a = 4.9472 (5), b = 9.9021 (10), c = 7.1002 (7) Å and β = 91.464 (3)° with Z = 2. The molecules form two stacks parallel to the a axis with the molecules being one a translation distance from each other. This stacking involves axial hydrogen atoms on one molecule and the axial oxygen atoms on the adjacent molecule in the stack. None of these C—H⋯O contacts is particularly short (all are > 2.4 Å). The many C—H⋯O contacts between the two stacks involve at least one equatorial hydrogen or oxygen atom. Again, no unusually short contacts are found. The whole basically consists of a complex network of C—H⋯O contacts with no single, linear C—H⋯O contacts, only contacts that involve two (bifurcated), and mostly three or four neighbors.
of 1,3-dithiane 1,1,3,3-tetraoxide, CCCDC reference: 2058562
1. Chemical context
This is the second in a series looking at the C—H⋯O contacts in cyclic organic structures containing multiple sulfone groups [see Harlow et al. (2019) for the first structure in the series: 1,4-dithiane 1,1,4,4-tetraoxide]. Any methylene group adjacent to a sulfone has polarized hydrogen atoms. Methylene groups bonded to two are polarized to such an extent that they may form a C—H⋯X (X = N, O) hydrogen bond (Harlow et al., 1984) as illustrated.
The structure of the unsubstituted 1,3-disulfone, however, has not been previously reported and was of interest particularly because of its high melting point (583 K) and decomposition temperatures (ca 623 K), which are suggestive of potentially strong C—H⋯O contacts. The 1H NMR spectrum of the compound dissolved in DMSO shows a singlet, 2H, at δ = 5.238 ppm (highly polarized hydrogen atoms on C2 between the two SO2 groups); a triplet, 4H, at 3.370 ppm (moderately polarized hydrogen atoms on C4 and C6 with one adjacent SO2 group); and a pentet, 2H, at 2.260 ppm (relatively unpolarized hydrogen atoms on C5). See Li & Sammes (1983) for further details of 1H NMR spectra and hydrogen-atom polarity in disulfones.
2. Structural commentary
Fig. 1 is an ORTEP drawing of the 1,3-dithiane 1,1,3,3-tetraoxide molecule with atom labels using the suffix `a′ for axial and `e′ for equatorial atoms. The bond distances and angles are very similar to those reported for the 1,4-disulfone taking into consideration the small amount of distortion related to the different positions of the two sulfonyl groups, i.e. 1,3- vs 1,4-sites in the ring.
The hydrogen atoms were fully refined with isotropic displacement parameters as there seemed to be a correlation between the `strength' of the C—H polarization and the displacement parameters of the hydrogen atoms: more polarization seems to yield a smaller radius. Any further comments on this correlation from a structural standpoint would require a diffraction study using neutrons instead of X-rays to better define both the positions and the displacement parameters of the hydrogen atoms.
3. Supramolecular features
Obviously, it is the packing of the molecules that is especially fascinating given that the molecules stack parallel to the a axis at a distance of one translation on a, i.e. the length of the a axis, ca 4.9472 (5) Å at 120 K. A general packing diagram is shown in Fig. 2. The n-glide, the only symmetry operator in Pn, curiously preserves the polarity of the stacks and creates a polar crystal with, for example, all of the axial oxygen atoms in the stacks pointing in the same a-axis direction (up in Fig. 3) and most of the axial hydrogen atoms pointing down. The stacking is directly stabilized by C—H⋯O contacts between neighboring molecules in the stack and only involves the axial oxygen and hydrogen atoms (see Fig. 4 for the details). In Table 1, these axial C—H⋯O contacts are designated with symmetry `i′.
In addition, there are multiple O⋯H contacts between the stacks, all of which involve at least one equatorial atom. Some of these also serve to bridge adjacent molecules within a stack further cementing the molecules in the stack. Examination of the O⋯H contacts in Table 1 quickly shows that there are no short H⋯O contacts (disappointing) but simply a plethora of contacts that hold the molecules in this together. When the environment of each oxygen atom is surveyed in detail, it is found that they all interact with four hydrogen atoms, which generally form a distorted quadrilateral with O⋯H contact distances that vary from 2.44 to 3.09 Å. This is very similar to what was found for the 1,4-disulfone structure where example figures can be found (Harlow et al., 2019). The main difference is that the O⋯H distances in the 1,4-disulfone structure were relatively uniform and, in this structure, they are not.
One mystery that remains is why a small molecule with mirror symmetry crystallizes in a non-centrosymmetric, polar space group?
4. Database survey
A Cambridge Crystallographic Database survey of the 1,3-disulfone moiety reveals 22 structures with that motif (CSD version 5.41 + three updates; Groom et al., 2016). Four of the structures were authored by Harlow and Sammes and served as an impetus for the present study. A paper entitled in part `Study of the Interaction of Silver(I) with β-Disulfone in Aqueous Alkaline Media' was of particular interest because it suggested that metal salts could be made with our title compound, i.e. one of the hydrogen atoms on C2 was acidic enough to be easily removed (DeMember et al., 1983) in a solution of KOH.
5. Synthesis and crystallization
To a stirred solution of 1,3-dithiane (1.05 g, 5.70 mmol, Alfa-Aeser) in glacial acetic acid (25 mL) was added a solution of 30% H2O2 (10 mL) in glacial acetic acid (25 mL) and the mixture was heated to 323 K overnight. The white precipitate was separated on a Buchner funnel and washed with water (3 × 25 mL) and dried in air. Colorless, rod-like crystals of the compound were harvested from an evaporated KOH (0.5 M) solution of the the 1,3-disulfone. 1H NMR (400 MHz, DMSO-d6), δ: 5.238 (singlet, 2H, H2a/e), 3.370 (triplet, 4H, 3JH,H = 5 Hz, H4a/e, H6a/e), 2.260 (pentet, 2H, 3JH,H = 6 Hz, H5a/e); 13C NMR (100.13 MHz, DMSO-d6), δ: 70.12 (C2), 50.09 (C4/C6), 17.60 (C4). HRMS (negative ion mode, [C4H7O4S2]−) m/z found: 182.9803; calculated: 182.9786.
6. Refinement
Crystal data, data collection and structure . Non-hydrogen atoms were refined with anisotropic displacement parameters and all hydrogen atoms were located from a difference-Fourier map and refined freely.
details are summarized in Table 2
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Supporting information
CCDC reference: 2058562
https://doi.org/10.1107/S2056989021000876/ey2004sup1.cif
contains datablock I. DOI:Structure factors: contains datablock I. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1107/S2056989021000876/ey2004Isup2.hkl
Data collection: APEX3 (Bruker, 2015); cell
SAINT (Bruker, 2015); data reduction: SAINT (Bruker, 2015); program(s) used to solve structure: olex2.solve (Dolomanov et al., 2009); program(s) used to refine structure: SHELXL2018/3 (Sheldrick, 2015); molecular graphics: CrystalMaker (Palmer, 2014); software used to prepare material for publication: publCIF (Westrip, 2010).C4H8O4S2 | F(000) = 192 |
Mr = 184.22 | Dx = 1.760 Mg m−3 |
Monoclinic, Pn | Mo Kα radiation, λ = 0.71073 Å |
a = 4.9472 (5) Å | Cell parameters from 5408 reflections |
b = 9.9021 (10) Å | θ = 3.5–27.1° |
c = 7.1002 (7) Å | µ = 0.72 mm−1 |
β = 91.464 (3)° | T = 120 K |
V = 347.71 (6) Å3 | Rod, colorless |
Z = 2 | 0.54 × 0.11 × 0.05 mm |
Bruker PHOTON-II diffractometer | 1513 independent reflections |
Radiation source: fine-focus sealed tube | 1473 reflections with I > 2σ(I) |
Bruker TRIUMPH curved-graphite monochromator | Rint = 0.039 |
Detector resolution: 7.41 pixels mm-1 | θmax = 27.1°, θmin = 2.1° |
combination of ω and φ–scans | h = −6→6 |
Absorption correction: multi-scan (SADABS; Krause et al., 2015) | k = −12→12 |
Tmin = 0.579, Tmax = 0.746 | l = −9→9 |
6109 measured reflections |
Refinement on F2 | Secondary atom site location: difference Fourier map |
Least-squares matrix: full | Hydrogen site location: difference Fourier map |
R[F2 > 2σ(F2)] = 0.027 | All H-atom parameters refined |
wR(F2) = 0.055 | w = 1/[σ2(Fo2) + (0.0163P)2 + 0.148P] where P = (Fo2 + 2Fc2)/3 |
S = 1.15 | (Δ/σ)max < 0.001 |
1513 reflections | Δρmax = 0.28 e Å−3 |
123 parameters | Δρmin = −0.40 e Å−3 |
2 restraints | Absolute structure: Flack x determined using 682 quotients [(I+)-(I-)]/[(I+)+(I-)] (Parsons et al., 2013). |
Primary atom site location: iterative | Absolute structure parameter: 0.07 (4) |
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 | ||
S1 | 0.56801 (14) | 0.16084 (8) | 0.31351 (11) | 0.01036 (19) | |
S3 | 0.54595 (15) | 0.42138 (8) | 0.52142 (12) | 0.01083 (19) | |
O1a | 0.8592 (5) | 0.1643 (3) | 0.3226 (4) | 0.0167 (5) | |
O1e | 0.4403 (5) | 0.0944 (3) | 0.1549 (4) | 0.0173 (6) | |
O3a | 0.8376 (5) | 0.4249 (3) | 0.5291 (4) | 0.0162 (5) | |
O3e | 0.4048 (5) | 0.5484 (2) | 0.5189 (4) | 0.0170 (6) | |
C2 | 0.4419 (7) | 0.3292 (4) | 0.3144 (5) | 0.0125 (7) | |
C4 | 0.4299 (7) | 0.3185 (4) | 0.7058 (5) | 0.0155 (7) | |
C5 | 0.5438 (8) | 0.1749 (4) | 0.6975 (5) | 0.0166 (8) | |
C6 | 0.4464 (8) | 0.0935 (4) | 0.5261 (5) | 0.0155 (8) | |
H2a | 0.244 (8) | 0.323 (3) | 0.309 (6) | 0.006 (9)* | |
H2e | 0.515 (8) | 0.376 (4) | 0.206 (6) | 0.004 (9)* | |
H4a | 0.231 (8) | 0.326 (4) | 0.697 (5) | 0.007 (9)* | |
H4e | 0.489 (7) | 0.362 (4) | 0.817 (6) | 0.011 (10)* | |
H5a | 0.724 (9) | 0.179 (4) | 0.706 (6) | 0.011 (10)* | |
H5e | 0.475 (9) | 0.123 (5) | 0.807 (7) | 0.025 (12)* | |
H6a | 0.255 (7) | 0.094 (4) | 0.513 (6) | 0.002 (8)* | |
H6e | 0.523 (8) | 0.005 (4) | 0.529 (6) | 0.007 (8)* |
U11 | U22 | U33 | U12 | U13 | U23 | |
S1 | 0.0083 (4) | 0.0114 (4) | 0.0114 (4) | 0.0005 (4) | 0.0006 (3) | −0.0008 (3) |
S3 | 0.0098 (4) | 0.0107 (4) | 0.0120 (4) | −0.0004 (3) | −0.0004 (3) | −0.0015 (3) |
O1a | 0.0091 (12) | 0.0200 (13) | 0.0209 (14) | 0.0015 (10) | 0.0017 (10) | −0.0001 (11) |
O1e | 0.0161 (13) | 0.0203 (13) | 0.0153 (13) | −0.0022 (11) | −0.0004 (10) | −0.0076 (10) |
O3a | 0.0085 (12) | 0.0191 (13) | 0.0210 (13) | −0.0026 (10) | −0.0019 (10) | −0.0017 (11) |
O3e | 0.0167 (14) | 0.0120 (13) | 0.0224 (14) | 0.0027 (10) | 0.0024 (11) | −0.0019 (10) |
C2 | 0.0120 (18) | 0.0124 (17) | 0.0130 (17) | −0.0006 (13) | −0.0015 (14) | 0.0003 (13) |
C4 | 0.0146 (18) | 0.0211 (19) | 0.0108 (16) | 0.0000 (15) | 0.0023 (14) | −0.0010 (14) |
C5 | 0.0138 (19) | 0.022 (2) | 0.0136 (19) | 0.0005 (15) | 0.0007 (15) | 0.0071 (14) |
C6 | 0.0119 (16) | 0.0177 (19) | 0.0170 (18) | 0.0002 (14) | −0.0002 (14) | 0.0021 (14) |
S1—O1e | 1.437 (3) | C2—H2e | 0.97 (4) |
S1—O1a | 1.441 (3) | C4—C5 | 1.531 (5) |
S1—C6 | 1.769 (4) | C4—H4a | 0.99 (4) |
S1—C2 | 1.780 (4) | C4—H4e | 0.94 (4) |
S3—O3e | 1.439 (3) | C5—C6 | 1.528 (5) |
S3—O3a | 1.443 (3) | C5—H5a | 0.89 (4) |
S3—C4 | 1.767 (4) | C5—H5e | 1.00 (5) |
S3—C2 | 1.795 (4) | C6—H6a | 0.95 (4) |
C2—H2a | 0.98 (4) | C6—H6e | 0.95 (4) |
O1e—S1—O1a | 117.72 (16) | C5—C4—S3 | 112.3 (3) |
O1e—S1—C6 | 110.10 (17) | C5—C4—H4a | 116 (2) |
O1a—S1—C6 | 109.38 (17) | S3—C4—H4a | 105 (2) |
O1e—S1—C2 | 106.54 (16) | C5—C4—H4e | 111 (2) |
O1a—S1—C2 | 109.14 (16) | S3—C4—H4e | 105 (3) |
C6—S1—C2 | 102.89 (17) | H4a—C4—H4e | 108 (3) |
O3e—S3—O3a | 117.64 (15) | C6—C5—C4 | 114.3 (3) |
O3e—S3—C4 | 110.27 (17) | C6—C5—H5a | 112 (3) |
O3a—S3—C4 | 109.24 (17) | C4—C5—H5a | 109 (3) |
O3e—S3—C2 | 107.81 (16) | C6—C5—H5e | 104 (3) |
O3a—S3—C2 | 107.99 (16) | C4—C5—H5e | 108 (3) |
C4—S3—C2 | 102.81 (18) | H5a—C5—H5e | 109 (4) |
S1—C2—S3 | 112.73 (19) | C5—C6—S1 | 111.9 (3) |
S1—C2—H2a | 107 (2) | C5—C6—H6a | 112 (2) |
S3—C2—H2a | 109 (2) | S1—C6—H6a | 106 (2) |
S1—C2—H2e | 108 (2) | C5—C6—H6e | 111 (3) |
S3—C2—H2e | 107 (2) | S1—C6—H6e | 103 (2) |
H2a—C2—H2e | 113 (3) | H6a—C6—H6e | 114 (3) |
O1e—S1—C2—S3 | 172.32 (18) | O3a—S3—C4—C5 | −57.4 (3) |
O1a—S1—C2—S3 | −59.6 (2) | C2—S3—C4—C5 | 57.1 (3) |
C6—S1—C2—S3 | 56.5 (2) | S3—C4—C5—C6 | −66.1 (4) |
O3e—S3—C2—S1 | −172.54 (18) | C4—C5—C6—S1 | 66.5 (4) |
O3a—S3—C2—S1 | 59.4 (2) | O1e—S1—C6—C5 | −171.4 (3) |
C4—S3—C2—S1 | −56.0 (2) | O1a—S1—C6—C5 | 57.8 (3) |
O3e—S3—C4—C5 | 171.8 (3) | C2—S1—C6—C5 | −58.2 (3) |
D—H···A | D—H | H···A | D···A | D—H···A |
C2—H2a···O1ai | 0.98 (4) | 2.47 (4) | 3.315 (4) | 143 (3) |
C2—H2a···O3ai | 0.98 (4) | 2.76 (4) | 3.520 (5) | 134 (3) |
C2—H2a···O3eii | 0.98 (4) | 2.91 (4) | 3.556 (4) | 124 (3) |
C2—H2e···O3aii | 0.97 (4) | 2.49 (4) | 3.201 (4) | 130 (3) |
C2—H2e···O3eiii | 0.97 (4) | 2.49 (4) | 3.370 (4) | 151 (3) |
C4—H4a···O3ai | 0.99 (4) | 2.46 (4) | 3.329 (4) | 147 (3) |
C4—H4e···O3aiv | 0.94 (4) | 2.70 (4) | 3.462 (4) | 138 (3) |
C4—H4e···O3ev | 0.94 (4) | 2.63 (4) | 3.454 (5) | 146 (3) |
C5—H5e···O1avi | 1.00 (5) | 2.91 (5) | 3.598 (5) | 127 (3) |
C5—H5e···O1evii | 1.00 (5) | 2.50 (5) | 3.395 (4) | 150 (4) |
C6—H6a···O1ai | 0.95 (4) | 2.45 (4) | 3.287 (4) | 147 (3) |
C6—H6a···O1evi | 0.95 (4) | 2.65 (4) | 3.269 (5) | 124 (3) |
C6—H6e···O1avi | 0.95 (4) | 2.81 (4) | 3.344 (5) | 116 (3) |
C6—H6e···O1eviii | 0.95 (4) | 2.44 (4) | 3.186 (5) | 135 (3) |
Symmetry codes: (i) x−1, y, z; (ii) x−1/2, −y+1, z−1/2; (iii) x+1/2, −y+1, z−1/2; (iv) x−1/2, −y+1, z+1/2; (v) x+1/2, −y+1, z+1/2; (vi) x−1/2, −y, z+1/2; (vii) x, y, z+1; (viii) x+1/2, −y, z+1/2. |
Funding information
Funding for this research was provided by: The R. Harlow Foundation for Disabused Crystallographers [gift No. 174(3) to Allen G. Oliver].
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