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Three substituted (E)-3-aryl-2-(thienyl)acrylonitriles: isolated molecules, simple hydrogen-bonded chains and
Debora Cobo1, Jairo Quiroga, José M de la Torre
1Grupo de Investigación de Compuestos Heterocíclicos, Departamento de Química, Universidad de Valle, AA 25360 Cali, Colombia.
Abstract:
The structure of (E)-2-(2-thienyl)-3-(3,4,5-trimethoxyphenyl)acrylonitrile, C16H15NO3S, contains no direction-specific intermolecular interactions. The molecules of (E)-3-(4-bromophenyl)-2-(2-thienyl)acrylonitrile, C13H8BrNS, exhibit orientational disorder of the thienyl fragment, and the molecules are linked into simple C(5) chains by a single C-H...N hydrogen bond. In (E)-3-phenyl-2-(3-thienyl)acrylonitrile, C13H9NS, the molecules are linked into sheets by a combination of one C-H...N hydrogen bond and one C-H...pi(arene) hydrogen bond.
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