The title compound, C 17 H 12 Cl 2 O, has a cyclohexenone ring in the half-chair conformation. The aryl ring in the side chain attached to the tetralone ring is twisted out of the plane of the ,-unsaturated ketone plane as a result of non-bonded interactions.
(E)-1-(4-Carboxyphenylmethylene)-2-tetralone
✍ Scribed by Oloo, Eliud O. ;Quail, J. Wilson ;Padmanilayam, Maniyan P. ;Dimmock, Jonathan R.
- Publisher
- International Union of Crystallography
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 255 KB
- Volume
- 58
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1600-5368
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✦ Synopsis
The title compound, C 18 H 14 O 3 , crystallizes in space group P2 1 /c as hydrogen-bonded dimers with crystallographic inversion symmetry.
Experimental
Compound (I) (m.p. 504±506 K) was prepared in 40% yield by a literature method (Jha et al., 2002). The single-crystal used in the X-ray crystallographic determination was obtained from the reaction product. The evaluation using P388 cells was carried out by a
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Both olefinic double bonds of the title compound, C 20 H 16 FNO 3 , have the E configuration, while the cyclohexyl ring adopts the sofa conformation. Non-bonded interactions occur between one of the ortho H atoms of each of the aryl rings and the equatorial H atoms at positions 3 and 5 of the alicyc