Crystal Structures of Three Di- and Tetrabenzylterephthalamides
Peter G. Jonesaand Piotr Ku´sb
aInstitut f¨ur Anorganische und Analytische Chemie, Technische Universit¨at Braunschweig, Postfach 3329, 38023 Braunschweig, Germany
bDepartment of Chemistry, University of Silesia, 9, Szkolna Street, 40-006 Katowice, Poland Reprint requests to Prof. Dr. P. G. Jones. Fax: +49-531-391-5387. E-mail: p.jones@tu-bs.de Z. Naturforsch.2011,66b,83 – 87; received September 24, 2010
The X-ray crystal structures of the three compoundsN,N-dibenzylterephthalamide,1,N,N-di- benzyl-N,N-dimethylterephthalamide,2, andN,N,N,N-tetrabenzylterephthalamide,3, were de- termined. Compound1fits into the general pattern of disubstituted terephthalamides, with crystallo- graphic inversion symmetry and classical hydrogen bonds linking the molecules into chains parallel to the short axis. Compound2also displays inversion symmetry, but the packing only involves two weak hydrogen bonds of the form C–Hmethyl···O. The complex packing of compound3, which pos- sesses no crystallographic symmetry, involves only two C–H···O contacts; these are augmented by three C–H···πinteractions.
Key words:Terephthalamides, X-Ray Structures, Secondary Interactions
