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Aamer Saeed1, Muhammad Qasim, Jim Simpson
1Department of Chemistry, Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad 45320, Pakistan.
Abstract:
The title compound, C10H11BrO4, a useful precursor to pharmaceutically active isocoumarin and isochroman derivatives, crystallizes with two unique molecules in the asymmetric unit. A π-π stacking interaction links the planar molecules in the asymmetric unit. Additional π-π contacts stack pairs of molecules along the c axis. A feature of the crystal packing is the presence of a number of short Br···O contacts. A particularly unusual arrangement involves the formation of dimers, with pairs of Br···O contacts imposing a close Br···Br interaction and generating five-membered rings within an eight-membered ring formed by two Br···O contacts. Only two comparable arrangements have been reported previously. The Br···O contacts combine with weak C-H···O hydrogen bonds to form corrugated sheets of molecules approximately parallel to (001). These sheets are stacked along the c axis by π-π interactions to generate a three-dimensional network.
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