Source of materialAs olution of 4-acetyl-2-(3-chloro-phenyl)-5-methyl-2,4-dihydro-pyrazol-3-one (1.0 g, 3.99 mmol) in methanol (30 mL) was added to asolution of 5-methyl-4-p-tolyl-thiazol-2-ylamine (0.815 g, 3.99 mmol) in methanol (20 mL) under an inert atmosphere. The reaction mixture was refluxed for three hours. Completion of the reaction was monitored by silica TLC using hexane/ethyla cetate (8:2).T he reaction was allowed to cool to room temperature and then stirred overnight. Ayellow precipitete formed which wast hen filtered and washed with methanol (10 mL). Thec rude product, which was purified by crystallization from ethanol gave brown crystals. (1.22 g, 70% yield). M.p. = 451-452 K. Crystals suitable for X-ray diffraction were obtained by slow evaporation of the title compound from ad ichloromethane:hexane solution at room temperature.
Experimental detailsAll Hatomswere positioned geometrically and allowed to ride on their respective parent atoms. The absorpton correction was based on fitting afunction to the empirical transmission surface as sampled by multiple equvalent measurements [14].
DiscussionThe pyrazole ring is aprominent structural motif found in numerous pharmaceutically active compounds. This is mainly due to the easy preparation and the important pharmacological activity. Therefore, the synthesis and selective functionalization of pyrazoleshas been thefocus of active research over theyears [1][2][3]. A survey of the literature reveals that some pyrazoles have been employed as antileukemic [4,5], antitumor [6, 7], anti-proliferative agents [8], anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial agents [9,10]. Schiff base ligands synthesized from pyrazole rings have also been employed in adiverse range of applications. We previously have reported the synthesis of the title structure and from NMR deduced that the Schiff base is present as the keto-imine tautomeric form [11]. Thediffraction data in this report clearly indicates that the nitrogen atom from 2-aminothiazole exists as a secondaryamine. Theketo-amine tautomeric formrather than the keto-imine predominates in the solid state. There areseveral examples from thel iterature wheret hish as been observed previously [12,13]. In the crystal lattice as ingle intramolcular hydrogen bonding arrangement is observed i.e. N3-H3···O1 3.0132(13) Å (Fig.).