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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 and frontier mol-ecular orbital analysis of
N Suresh Babu1, V Sughanya2, D Praveenkumar3
1Department of Chemistry, Government College of Engineering-Sengipatti, Thanjavur-613 402, Tamil Nadu, India.
Abstract:
In the fused ring system of the title compound, C24H27BrO5, the mean plane and maximum deviations of the central pyran ring are 0.0384 (2) and 0.0733 (2) Å, respectively. The cyclo-hexenone rings both adopt envelope conformations with the tetra-substituted C atoms as flap atoms, whereas the central pyran ring adopts a flattened boat conformation. The central pyran and phenyl substituent rings are almost perpendicular to each other, making a dihedral angle of 89.71 (2)°. In the crystal, pairs of mol-ecules are linked via O-H⋯O hydrogen bonds, forming inversion dimers with an R 2 2(20) ring motif. A Hirshfeld surface analysis indicates that the most important contributions to the crystal packing are from H⋯H (50.6%), O⋯H/H⋯O (22.9%) and C⋯H/H⋯C (11.1%) contacts. Quantum chemical calculations for the frontier mol-ecular orbitals were undertaken to determine the chemical reactivity of the title compound.
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