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and Hirshfeld surface analysis of 2-amino-5-bromo-1,3,4-triazol-3-ium chloride monohydrate
aNational University of Uzbekistan named after Mirzo Ulugbek, 4 University St., Tashkent, 100174, Uzbekistan, bDepartment of Physics, Faculty of Sciences, Erciyes University, 38039 Kayseri, Türkiye, cAzerbaijan Medical University, Scientific Research Centre (SRC), A. Kasumzade St. 14, AZ 1022, Baku, Azerbaijan, dDepartment of Chemistry, University of Gondar, PO Box 196, Gondar, Ethiopia, and eInstitute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan, M. Ulugbek, St, 83, Tashkent, 100125, Uzbekistan
*Correspondence e-mail: [email protected]
In the title salt, C2H3BrN3S+·Cl−·H2O, the cation C2H3BrN3S+ cation, the Cl− anion and the water molecule are linked by N—H⋯Cl, N—H⋯O and O—H⋯Cl hydrogen bonds, forming molecular layers parallel to the (002) plane. The crystal packing is further reinforced by van der Waals interactions between these layers but C—H⋯π and π–π interactions are not observed. Hirshfeld surface analysis and two-dimensional fingerprint plots were used to study the intermolecular interactions.
Keywords: crystal structure; hydrogen bonds; van der Waals interactions; Hirshfeld surface analysis.
CCDC reference: 2549381
1. Chemical context
Thiadiazole is a five-membered ring system containing a chalcogen-bond-donor sulfur atom (Gurbanov et al., 2023
), a hydrogen-bonding domain, and a two-electron donor nitrogen system that exhibits a strong coordination ability (Khojabaeva et al., 2025
; Mahmudov et al., 2021
). The 1,3,4-thiadiazole moiety is present as a core structural component in an array of drug categories such as anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, analgesic, anticancer, anti-epileptic, antineoplastic, antiviral, and antitubercular agents (Jain et al., 2013
; Torambetov et al., 2026
). Transition-metal complexes of thiadiazole ligands have also attracted much attention due to their high synthetic potential for synthesis, crystal engineering and catalysis (Mamedov et al., 2006
; Nuralieva et al., 2025
, 2026
). Functionalization of the thiadiazol moiety with a non-covalent bond-donor or acceptor sites can be used a synthetic tool to improve their functional properties (Huseynov et al., 2021
; Naghiyev et al., 2023
).
In a continuation of our work in this area, we functionalized a thiadiazol, 5-bromo-1,3,4-thiadiazol-2-amine, which exhibits various sorts of intermolecular non-covalent interactions.
2. Structural commentary
In the (C2H3BrN3S)+ cation of the title salt, (Fig. 1
), the five-membered ring is quite planar (r.m.s. deviation = 0.004 Å). The N1—N2—C2—Br1 and C1—S1—C2—Br1 torsion angles are −179.2 (3) and 178.6 (3)°, respectively. The Br—C [Br1—C2 = 1.855 (5) Å], S—C [S1—C1 = 1.733 (5) and S1—C2 = 1.740 (5) Å], N=C [N1—C1 = 1.323 (6) and N2—C2 =1.277 (7) Å] and N—N [N1—N2 = 1.364 (6) Å] bond lengths, and the C—S—C [C1—S1—C2) 86.9 (2)°] and C=N—N [C1=N1—N2 = 117.5 (4) and C2=N2—N1 = 108.9 (4)°] angles are within normal values and are also compatible with those of the structures in the database survey section.
| Figure 1 View of the asymmetric unit the title salt, showing the atom labeling and the 50% probability ellipsoids for non-hydrogen atoms. |
3. Supramolecular features and Hirshfeld surface analysis
In the title salt, the (C2H3BrN3S)+ cation, the Cl− anion, and the water molecule are linked by N—H⋯Cl, N—H⋯O, and O—H⋯Cl hydrogen bonds, forming molecular layers parallel to the (002) plane (Table 1
, Figs. 2
, 3
and 4
). van der Waals interactions between these layers consolidate the crystal packing. C—H⋯π and π–π interactions were not observed.
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| Figure 2 A partial packing diagram showing the O—H⋯Cl, N—H⋯Cl and N—H⋯O hydrogen bonds (dashed lines). Symmetry codes: (i) 2 − x, |
| Figure 3 Crystal packing of the title salt viewed along the a-axis direction. Intermolecular hydrogen bonds are shown as dashed lines. |
| Figure 4 Crystal packing of the title salt viewed along the b-axis direction. |
Hirshfeld surface analysis was performed to visualize and quantify the intermolecular interactions in the cation of the title salt using CrystalExplorer (Spackman et al., 2021
). The Hirshfeld surfaces were mapped over dnorm in the range −0.7220 (red) to +0,9614 (blue) a.u. (Fig. 5
). The red regions are attributed to the N1—H1⋯O1 and N3—H3B⋯Cl1 interactions (Tables 1
and 2
). The two-dimensional fingerprint plots indicate that the major contributions to the crystal packing are from Br⋯H/H⋯Br (21.4%), H⋯H (9.6%) and Cl⋯H/H⋯Cl (7.5%) interactions as shown in Fig. 6
. Other, less notable contacts are from N⋯C/C⋯N (5.5%), N⋯N (5.3%), O⋯H/H⋯O (5.2%), N⋯H/H⋯N (5.1%), S⋯N/N⋯S (4.6%), Br⋯S/S⋯Br (4.3%), Br⋯O/O⋯Br (4.1%), C⋯H/H⋯C (4.1%), Cl⋯S/S⋯Cl (3.1%), Br⋯Cl/Cl⋯Br (2.2%), Cl⋯C/C⋯Cl (2.0%), Br⋯N/N⋯Br (1.8%), Cl⋯N/N⋯Cl (1.2%), S⋯O/O⋯S (0.8%), S⋯C/C⋯S (0.7%), Br⋯·C/C⋯Br (0.3%), C⋯C (0.1%) and O⋯C/C⋯O (0.1%) interactions.
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| Figure 5 The Hirshfeld surface of the (C2H3BrN3S)+ cation of the title salt mapped over dnorm (color code. Br: green, C: gray; Cl: violet, H: white; O: red; N: blue; S: yellow). |
| Figure 6 The two-dimensional fingerprint plots, showing (a) all interactions, and those delineated into (b) Br⋯H/H⋯Br, (c) S⋯H/H⋯S, (d) H⋯H, (e) Cl⋯H/H⋯Cl, (f) N⋯C/C⋯N, (g) N⋯N, (h) O⋯H/H⋯O, (i) N⋯H/H⋯N and (j) S⋯N/N⋯S interactions; de and di represent the distances from a point on the Hirshfeld surface to the nearest atoms outside (external) and inside (internal) the surface, respectively. |
4. Database survey
A search of the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD, Version 6.00, last update April 2025; Groom et al., 2016
) for the cation without the Br atom gave one hit and this is a copper complex. When the unprotonated molecule is searched for by removing Br, 240 results are obtained, and most of these are metal complexes. The three most similar compounds to the title salt containing the 2-amino-5-bromo-1,3,4-triazol-3-ium unit are CSD refcodes AYOVAM (Zhang et al., 2011
), VIKSOZ (Smith & Lynch, 2013
) and BOMROM (Smith & Lynch, 2014
).
In AYOVAM, the strongest N—H⋯N intermolecular hydrogen bond, between the amine group and one thiadiazole N atom, forms centrosymmetric dimers. The other amine H atom extends the supramolecular network, forming an N—H⋯N contact with the other thiadiazole N atom. In VIKSOZ, the amine-heteroatom N—H⋯N hydrogen bond between the heterodimers results in a one-dimensional chain structure stretching along the c-axis direction. In BOMROM, the heterodimers are extended into a chain along the b-axis direction through an amine N—H⋯N thiadiazole hydrogen bond. In the title compound, the crystal packing is achieved through intermolecular O—H⋯Cl and N—H⋯Cl hydrogen bonds.
5. Synthesis and crystallization
To a solution of 2-amino-1,3,4-thiadiazole (5 g, 48.45 mmol) in methanol (70 mL), sodium bicarbonate (8.14 g, 96.90 mmol) and bromine (2.5 mL, 48.45 mmol) were added. The reaction mixture was stirred at room temperature until the disappearance of the starting material (30–40 minutes). The methanol was removed under vacuum and the crude product was diluted with water (15 mL), filtered, dry in vacuo to give a brown solid, 5-bromo-1,3,4-thiadiazol-2-amine (94%). Colorless crystals suitable for X-ray analysis were obtained by slow evaporation of a mixture of 1 M HCl (pH = 0) and methanol (v/v, 1:2) solution. Analysis calculated for C2H5BrClN3OS (M = 234.50): C 10.24, H 2.15, N 17.95; found: C 10.20, H 2.10, N 17.92%. 1H NMR (300 MHz, DMSO-d6): δ 7.84 (3H). 13C NMR (75 MHz, DMSO-d6) δ 154.8 and 159.1.
6. Refinement
Crystal data, data collection and structure details are summarized in Table 3
. The water H-atom positions were determined from the difference-Fourier map, with their thermal characteristics restricted to 1.5 times those of the oxygen atom. The hydrogen atom of the NH group was identified in the difference-Fourier map, refined freely with 1.2Ueq(N), while the hydrogen atoms of the NH2 groups were positioned geometrically and assigned thermal parameter values at 1.2 times that of the connected nitrogen atom.
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Supporting information
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Supporting information file. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1107/S2056989026004378/ox2022Isup3.cml
| C2H3BrN3S+·Cl−·H2O | Dx = 2.025 Mg m−3 |
| Mr = 234.51 | Cu Kα radiation, λ = 1.54184 Å |
| Orthorhombic, P212121 | Cell parameters from 6428 reflections |
| a = 5.3575 (1) Å | θ = 2.9–71.3° |
| b = 9.5328 (1) Å | µ = 12.49 mm−1 |
| c = 15.0588 (2) Å | T = 293 K |
| V = 769.08 (2) Å3 | Block, colourles |
| Z = 4 | 0.18 × 0.14 × 0.08 mm |
| F(000) = 456 |
| XtaLAB Synergy, Single source at home/near, HyPix3000 diffractometer | 1495 independent reflections |
| Radiation source: micro-focus sealed X-ray tube, PhotonJet (Cu) X-ray Source | 1485 reflections with I > 2σ(I) |
| Mirror monochromator | Rint = 0.056 |
| Detector resolution: 10.0000 pixels mm-1 | θmax = 71.4°, θmin = 5.5° |
| ω scans | h = −5→6 |
| Absorption correction: multi-scan (CrysAlisPro; Rigaku OD, 2020) | k = −11→11 |
| Tmin = 0.341, Tmax = 1.000 | l = −18→18 |
| 6293 measured reflections |
| Refinement on F2 | H atoms treated by a mixture of independent and constrained refinement |
| Least-squares matrix: full | w = 1/[σ2(Fo2) + (0.0666P)2 + 0.3887P] where P = (Fo2 + 2Fc2)/3 |
| R[F2 > 2σ(F2)] = 0.035 | (Δ/σ)max < 0.001 |
| wR(F2) = 0.097 | Δρmax = 0.63 e Å−3 |
| S = 1.09 | Δρmin = −0.48 e Å−3 |
| 1495 reflections | Extinction correction: SHELXL-2016/6 (Sheldrick, 2015b), Fc*=kFc[1+0.001xFc2λ3/sin(2θ)]-1/4 |
| 90 parameters | Extinction coefficient: 0.0048 (8) |
| 5 restraints | Absolute structure: Flack x determined using 579 quotients [(I+)-(I-)]/[(I+)+(I-)] (Parsons et al., 2013). |
| Primary atom site location: dual | Absolute structure parameter: 0.03 (3) |
| Hydrogen site location: mixed |
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 | ||
| Br1 | 0.29817 (13) | −0.05893 (6) | 0.45541 (4) | 0.0458 (3) | |
| Cl1 | 1.2003 (2) | 0.21834 (13) | 0.18983 (8) | 0.0381 (4) | |
| S1 | 0.7039 (2) | 0.11486 (12) | 0.35421 (8) | 0.0319 (3) | |
| O1 | 0.3054 (8) | 0.5998 (4) | 0.3940 (3) | 0.0435 (9) | |
| H1A | 0.431399 | 0.647416 | 0.377691 | 0.065* | |
| H1B | 0.180495 | 0.648222 | 0.377514 | 0.065* | |
| N1 | 0.4579 (7) | 0.3315 (4) | 0.3915 (3) | 0.0269 (8) | |
| N2 | 0.3207 (8) | 0.2273 (4) | 0.4298 (3) | 0.0288 (8) | |
| N3 | 0.8144 (10) | 0.3806 (5) | 0.3069 (3) | 0.0420 (11) | |
| H3A | 0.785060 | 0.469288 | 0.306957 | 0.050* | |
| H3B | 0.943662 | 0.348223 | 0.279993 | 0.050* | |
| C1 | 0.6621 (8) | 0.2948 (5) | 0.3479 (3) | 0.0254 (9) | |
| C2 | 0.4283 (9) | 0.1099 (5) | 0.4153 (3) | 0.0280 (10) | |
| H1 | 0.406 (12) | 0.414 (3) | 0.394 (4) | 0.036 (16)* |
| U11 | U22 | U33 | U12 | U13 | U23 | |
| Br1 | 0.0516 (4) | 0.0277 (4) | 0.0581 (4) | −0.0044 (3) | 0.0093 (3) | 0.0041 (2) |
| Cl1 | 0.0264 (5) | 0.0377 (7) | 0.0501 (7) | 0.0046 (5) | −0.0006 (5) | −0.0154 (5) |
| S1 | 0.0258 (5) | 0.0263 (6) | 0.0435 (6) | 0.0058 (5) | 0.0041 (5) | −0.0054 (5) |
| O1 | 0.0295 (17) | 0.0276 (19) | 0.073 (3) | 0.0051 (16) | 0.006 (2) | 0.0073 (17) |
| N1 | 0.0231 (17) | 0.022 (2) | 0.036 (2) | 0.0028 (16) | 0.0047 (16) | −0.0036 (15) |
| N2 | 0.0259 (19) | 0.026 (2) | 0.0342 (19) | −0.0007 (17) | 0.0043 (16) | −0.0015 (16) |
| N3 | 0.036 (2) | 0.030 (2) | 0.060 (3) | 0.001 (2) | 0.022 (2) | −0.006 (2) |
| C1 | 0.019 (2) | 0.024 (2) | 0.033 (2) | −0.0016 (17) | 0.0011 (17) | −0.0043 (18) |
| C2 | 0.026 (2) | 0.027 (2) | 0.031 (2) | 0.001 (2) | −0.0031 (18) | −0.0049 (18) |
| Br1—C2 | 1.855 (5) | N1—C1 | 1.323 (6) |
| S1—C1 | 1.733 (5) | N1—H1 | 0.83 (3) |
| S1—C2 | 1.740 (5) | N2—C2 | 1.277 (7) |
| O1—H1A | 0.8500 | N3—H3A | 0.8600 |
| O1—H1B | 0.8501 | N3—H3B | 0.8600 |
| N1—N2 | 1.364 (6) | N3—C1 | 1.309 (7) |
| C1—S1—C2 | 86.9 (2) | C1—N3—H3B | 120.0 |
| H1A—O1—H1B | 104.5 | N1—C1—S1 | 110.0 (4) |
| N2—N1—H1 | 119 (5) | N3—C1—S1 | 124.3 (4) |
| C1—N1—N2 | 117.5 (4) | N3—C1—N1 | 125.7 (5) |
| C1—N1—H1 | 123 (5) | S1—C2—Br1 | 121.0 (3) |
| C2—N2—N1 | 108.9 (4) | N2—C2—Br1 | 122.4 (4) |
| H3A—N3—H3B | 120.0 | N2—C2—S1 | 116.7 (4) |
| C1—N3—H3A | 120.0 | ||
| N1—N2—C2—Br1 | −179.2 (3) | C1—S1—C2—N2 | −0.6 (4) |
| N1—N2—C2—S1 | −0.1 (5) | C1—N1—N2—C2 | 1.0 (6) |
| N2—N1—C1—S1 | −1.4 (5) | C2—S1—C1—N1 | 1.1 (4) |
| N2—N1—C1—N3 | 179.6 (5) | C2—S1—C1—N3 | −180.0 (5) |
| C1—S1—C2—Br1 | 178.6 (3) |
| D—H···A | D—H | H···A | D···A | D—H···A |
| O1—H1A···Cl1i | 0.85 | 2.32 | 3.144 (4) | 163 |
| O1—H1B···Cl1ii | 0.85 | 2.37 | 3.196 (4) | 163 |
| N3—H3A···Cl1i | 0.86 | 2.38 | 3.221 (5) | 168 |
| N3—H3B···Cl1 | 0.86 | 2.29 | 3.127 (5) | 163 |
| N1—H1···O1 | 0.83 (3) | 1.86 (3) | 2.685 (6) | 176 (7) |
| Symmetry codes: (i) −x+2, y+1/2, −z+1/2; (ii) −x+1, y+1/2, −z+1/2. |
| Contact | Distance | Symmetry operation |
| Br1···H1B | 3.09 | x, -1 + y, z |
| Br1···O1 | 3.50 | -1/2 + x, 1/2 - y, 1 - z |
| Br1···O1 | 3.56 | 1/2 + x, 1/2 - y, 1 - z |
| H1···O1 | 1.85 | x, y, z |
| H3B···Cl1 | 2.29 | x, y, z |
| H3A···Cl1 | 2.38 | 2 - x, 1/2 + y, 1/2 - z |
| C1···Cl1 | 3.51 | -1 + x, y, z |
| Cl1···H1B | 2.37 | 1 - x, -1/2 + y, 1/2 - z |
| Cl1···H1A | 2.32 | 2 - x, -1/2 + y, 1/2 - z |
Acknowledgements
The authors' contributions are as follows; conceptualization BT, MA and GMM; synthesis, KIH and BT; X-ray analysis JA and SK; founding KIH and BT; writing (review and editing of the manuscript) BT, and MA; supervision SK, MA and GMM.
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