“…Similarly, in the structures of the HBr (Antolini et al, 1993) and HCl±hydrate salts of 2-amino-5methyl-1,3,4-thiadiazole (Pilz et al, 1998), the halides are involved in the hydrogen-bonding network. Larger substituents, such as those containing phenyl rings (Foresti et al, 1985;Molina et al, 1988;Leung et al, 1992;Anders et al, 1999), affect the molecular packing by their very size. Thus, the structures of 2-amino-1,3,4-thiadiazoles with simple nonhydrogen-bonding substituents, namely, 2-amino-5-methyl-1,3,4-thiadiazole, (I), and 2-amino-5-ethyl-1,3,4-thiadiazole, (II), have been investigated to elucidate the in¯uence of these substituents on the molecular packing observed in the parent thiadiazole.…”