Molecular and crystalline structure of cycloheptanespiro-3′(4′H)-6′,7′,8′,9′-tetrahydrocyclohexa[b][1,4]thiazole-2′(5′H)-thione from powder synchrotron X-ray diffraction data

Abstract

A series of bidentate nitrogen–sulfur pro-ligands has been designed and synthesized with the purpose of introducing a structural modification that favours the tetrahedral site distortions of metalloprotein systems with metallic centers surrounded by ligands containing two N atoms and two S atoms as donor groups. Some of these new pro-ligands were obtained only as powders. Here we present the molecular and crystalline structure of cycloheptanespiro-3′(4′H)-6′,7′,8′,9′-tetrahydrocyclohexa[b][1,4]thiazole-2′(5′H)-thione (I) solved and refined from powder synchrotron X-ray diffraction data. Two independent molecules comprising a total of 36 non-H atoms were obtained from the direct-methods solution and refined against the powder X-ray diffraction data using the Rietveld method. The molecular conformations of the heterocyclic benzothiazine ring, the fused heptenyl ring and the heptanyl spiro ring are thoroughly discussed and compared with VASP theoretical calculations and other related structures. The packing of molecules in (I) is based on hydrogen bonds of the type N—H...S and hydrophobic C—H interactions.