2-Methyl-4-nitro-1-(4-nitrophenyl)-1H-imidazole

✍ Scribed by Wagner, Paweł ;Kubicki, Maciej

• Publisher: International Union of Crystallography
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 272 KB
• Volume: 63
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1600-5368
• DOI: 10.1107/s1600536807026244

✦ Synopsis

In the title compound, C 10 H 8 N 4 O 4 , two planar fragments, viz. the imidazole and nitrophenyl rings, are tilted at a dihedral of 57.89 (7) . The nitro groups are twisted with respect to the neighbouring ring planes; the dihedral angle is 7.0 (3) for imidazole and 9.68 (8) for benzene. The crystal structure consists of centrosymmetric dimers generated by C-HÁ Á ÁO hydrogen bonds, which are connected by C-HÁ Á ÁN hydrogen bonds into rows along the [001] direction. The neighbouring rows are connected via C-HÁ Á ÁO interactions into a twodimensional network in the bc plane.

Related literature

This is a part of our studies of intermolecular interactions on 4-nitroimidazole derivatives (Kubicki, 2004). The crystal structures of other 1-aryl-2-methyl-4-nitroimidazoles were described by Kowalski (1995Kowalski ( , 1996)), Kubicki (2004) and Kubicki & Wagner (2007). For related literature, see: Suwin ´ski et al. (1993).