Source of materialThec ompoundw as prepared upon reacting 4-bromobenzoyl chloride with equimolar amounts of potassium thiocyanate and diphenylamine in refluxing acetone for four hours. After filtration, the solution was left for evaporation upon which acrystalline solid was obtained.
Experimental detailsCarbon-bound Hatoms were placed in calculated positions with d(C-H) =0 .95 Åa nd were included in the refinement in the riding model approximation with U(H) =1.2 U eq (C). The nitrogen-bound Hatom was located on adifference Fourier map and refinedfreely.Discussion 1,3-Diketonic and mixed 1,3-O-a nd S-ketonic molecules have found widespread use as ligands in coordination chemistry. Upon introduction of an amine group instead of amethylene group connecting the two sp 2 -hybridized Ca toms,a ne asy way of generating anionic, chelating ligands by means of deprotonation is available. For comparative studies in envisioned coordination compounds, we determined the crystal structure of the title compound. Structural analyses for similar compounds applying diethylamine-as well as di-n-propylamine substituents on the C=S-moiety are apparent in the literature [1,2]. In the title crystal structure, the molecule is present in its O-and Sdiketonic tautomeric form. Due to mesomeric interactions, the bond length d(C(=S)-N) with only 1.346(3) Åissignificantly shorter than both C-N bond lengths stemming from the central NH group. The NH group is nearly in plane with the O-keto group while the O-keto and the S-keto group adopt astaggered conformation. The least-squares planes defined by the Catoms of the 4-bromophenyl group on the one hand and the C(=O)-N NH moiety on the other hand intersect at an angle of 27.3(2)°while for the least-squares plane defined by the C(=S)-N NH moiety an intersection angleo f7 7.9(1)°i so bserved. Thep laneso ft he phenyl groups on the diphenylamine moiety enclose an angle of 87.2(1)°. In the crystal structure, two types of intermolecular interactions can be observed: first, N-H×××Sh ydrogen bonds which connect two molecules to centrosymmetric dimers. Second, C-H×××Ocontacts whose range falls by more than 0.3 Å below the sum of van-der-Waals radii of the respective atoms. Thesecontactsappearbetween oneofthe Hatoms in ortho-position to the Br atom of the 4-bromophenyl moiety and the doublebonded Oatom.The latter contacts connect the dimeric units to tubes along (100) where the C-H×××Ocontacts run as antidromic chains along the outside of these tubes. In termsofgraph-set analysis [3,4], the descriptor for thehydrogen bonds is R 2 2 8 () on the unitary level while the descriptor for the C-H×××Ocontacts isC 1 1 6 () on the same level. p-Stackingi sn ot ap rominent featureo ft he crystal structure with theclosest distance between two aromatic systemsfound at 4.142(2) Å.