There is one independent molecule in the asymmetric unit of the title compound, C 13 H 9 BF 3 NO, which crystallizes in the non-centrosymmetric space group Cc. In the molecular structure, the BF 2 -carrying ring is distorted from planarity and its mean plane makes a dihedral angle of 42.3 (1) with the 4-fluorophenyl ring. F atoms are involved in all of the short intermolecular contacts of the crystal structure, which link molecules to form chains along [001] and [010].
Structure descriptionSchiff bases containing a 2-OH group are molecules that are stabilized by intramolecular hydrogen bonding. These molecules act as chelating agents for many cations (Chohan et al., 2001;Topal et al., 2007). The exchange of the OH proton with a cationic species is relatively easy. The same is realised for the exchange of a proton by a strong Lewis acid (BF 2 group). Is such a case, the N/BF 2 interaction is much stronger than hydrogen bonding due to the high mobility of the proton. As a consequence, the BF 2 À derivatives do not lose excitation energy by vibration but fluoresce very intensively. Thus, salicaldehyde has been used several times to develop BF 2 -carrying fluorophores. These were reviewed by Ziessel and co-workers (Frath et al