Methyl 4-(4-fluoro-phen-yl)-6-isopropyl-2-(methylsulfonyl)pyrimidine-5-carbox-ylate
Acta Crystallographica. Section E, Structure Reports Online
|January 5, 2011
Abstract:
The asymmetric unit of the title compound, C(16)H(17)FN(2)O(4)S, contains three independent mol-ecules, in which the pyrimidine and benzene rings are oriented at dihedral angles of 41.72 (3)°, 26.21 (3)° and 36.49 (3)°. Intra-molecular C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds result in the formation of two six- and one seven-membered non-planar rings, which have have twist conformations. In the crystal structure, inter-molecular C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds link the mol-ecules.
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