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(E)-1-(2,6-Di-chloro-phen-yl)-2-(3-nitro-benzyl-idene)hydrazine: crystal structure and Hirshfeld surface analysis
Zeliha Atioğlu1, Mehmet Akkurt2, Namiq Q Shikhaliyev3
1İlke Education and Health Foundation, Cappadocia University, Cappadocia Vocational College, The Medical Imaging Techniques Program, 50420 Mustafapaşa, Ürgüp, Nevşehir, Turkey.
Abstract:
The stabilized conformation of the title compound, C13H9Cl2N3O2, is similar to that of the isomeric compound (E)-1-(2,6-di-chloro-phen-yl)-2-(2-nitro-benzyl-idene)hydrazine. The 2,6-di-chloro-phenyl ring and the nitro-substituted benzene ring form a dihedral angle of 26.25 (16)°. In the crystal, face-to-face π-π stacking inter-actions along the a-axis direction occur between the centroids of the 2,6-di-chloro-phenyl ring and the nitro-substituted benzene ring. The mol-ecules are further linked by C-H⋯O contacts and N-H⋯O and C-H⋯Cl hydrogen bonds, forming pairs of hydrogen-bonded mol-ecular layers parallel to (100). The Hirshfeld surface analysis of the crystal structure indicates that the most important contributions to the crystal packing are from H⋯H (22.1%), Cl⋯H/H⋯Cl (20.5%), O⋯H/H⋯O (19.7%), C⋯C (11.1%) and C⋯H/H⋯C (8.3%) inter-actions.
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