A perfluorocyclopentene dithienylethene based molecular switch: 1,2-bis[5-(4-ethynylphenyl)-2-methylthiophen-3-yl]-3,3,4,4,5,5-hexafluorocyclopentene
✍ Scribed by Iyer, Vijay Mahadevan ;Stoeckli-Evans, Helen ;Belser, Peter
- Publisher
- International Union of Crystallography
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 140 KB
- Volume
- 62
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1600-5368
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✦ Synopsis
The title compound, C 31 H 18 F 6 S 2 , is a molecular switch based on dithienylperfluorocyclopentene. The molecule possesses pseudo-C 2 symmetry and has the open form of the switch. There are a number of intramolecular C-HÁ Á ÁF hydrogen bonds, but in the crystal structure there are no interactions between symmetry-related molecules.
📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES
Single-crystal X-ray study T = 294 K Mean (C-C) = 0.006 A R factor = 0.052 wR factor = 0.152 Data-to-parameter ratio = 12.4 For details of how these key indicators were automatically derived from the article, see http://journals.iucr.org/e.
In the title compound, C~17~H~10~F~6~O~4~S~2~·0.25C~3~H~6~O, there are two non-solvent molecules in the asymmetric unit, with different conformations. One is a photo-active antiparallel conformation in which the reactive C atoms are separated by 3.569 (6) Å. The other is a photo-inactive parallel co