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Construction and Systematical Symmetric Studies of a Series of Supramolecular Clusters with Binary or Ternary Ammonium Triphenylacetates
Published on: February 15, 2016
Crystal structure, Hirshfeld surface analysis and DFT study of
Zainab Jabri1, Nada Kheira Sebbar2,3, Tuncer Hökelek4
1Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Faculty of Sciences and Techniques, Road Immouzer, BP 2202 Fez, Morocco.
Abstract:
In the title mol-ecule, C20H24Br2N4, the imidazo-pyridine moiety is not planar as indicated by the dihedral angle of 2.0 (2)° between the constituent rings; the 4-di-methyl-amino-phenyl ring is inclined to the mean plane of the imidazole ring by 27.4 (1)°. In the crystal, two sets of C-H⋯π(ring) inter-actions form stacks of mol-ecules extending parallel to the a-axis direction. Hirshfeld surface analysis indicates that the most important contributions to the crystal packing are from H⋯H (42.2%), H⋯C/C⋯H (23.1%) and H⋯Br/Br⋯H (22.3%) inter-actions. The optimized structure calculated using density functional theory (DFT) at the B3LYP/ 6-311 G(d,p) level is compared with the experimentally determined structure in the solid state. The calculated HOMO-LUMO energy gap is 2.3591 eV.
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