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Published on: February 15, 2016
Crystal structure of 1,5-diethyl-1H-1,5-benzodiazepine-2,4(3H,5H)-di-thione
Abderrahman Lamkaddem1, Mohamed Harcharras2, Abdelillah Shaim3
1Laboratoire de Synthèse Organique et des Procédés Éxtraction, Université Ibn Tofail, Faculté des Sciences, 14000 Kénitra, Morocco.
Abstract:
In the title compound, C13H16N2S2, the seven-membered ring adopts a boat conformation, with the two phenyl-ene C atoms representing the stern and the methyl-ene C atom as the prow. The thione S atoms and N-bound ethyl groups lie on the opposite side of the mol-ecule to the phenyl-ene ring so that the mol-ecule approximates mirror symmetry. In the crystal, supra-molecular layers in the bc plane are sustained by a pair of C-H⋯S inter-actions to the same S atom acceptor.
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