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Crystal structure and Hirshfeld surface analysis of N,N'-[ethane-1,2-diylbis(-oxy)]bis-(4-methyl-benzene-sulfonamide)
Seher Meral1, Sevgi Kansiz2, Necmi Dege2
1Ondokuz Mayıs University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Chemistry, 55139, Samsun, Turkey.
Abstract:
In the mol-ecule of the title compound, C16H20N2O6S2, the mid-point of the C-C bond of the central ethane moiety is located on a twofold rotation axis. In the crystal, mol-ecules are linked by N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds into supra-molecular chains propagating along the [101] direction. Hirshfeld surface analysis and two-dimensional fingerprint plots indicate that the most important contributions to the crystal packing are from H⋯H (43.1%), O⋯H/H⋯O (40.9%), C⋯H/H⋯C (8.8%) and C⋯C (5.5%) inter-actions.
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