Conversion of diarylchalcones into 4,5-dihydropyrazole-1-carbothioamides: molecular and supramolecular structures of two precursors and three products

Abstract

Chalcones of type 4-XC6H4C(O)CH=CHC6H4(OCH2CCH)-4, where X = Cl, Br or MeO, have been converted to the corresponding 4,5-dihydropyrazole-1-carbothioamides using a cyclocondensation reaction with thiosemicarbazide. The chalcones 1-(4-chlorophenyl)-3-[4-(prop-2-ynyloxy)phenyl]prop-2-en-1-one, C18H13ClO2, (I), and 1-(4-bromophenyl)-3-[4-(prop-2-ynyloxy)phenyl]prop-2-en-1-one, C18H13BrO2, (II), are isomorphous, and their molecules are linked into sheets by two independent C—H...π(arene) interactions, both involving the same aryl ring with one C—H donor approaching each face. In each of the products (RS)-3-(4-chlorophenyl)-5-[4-(prop-2-ynyloxy)phenyl]-4,5-dihydropyrazole-1-carbothioamide, C19H16ClN3OS, (IV), (RS)-3-(4-bromophenyl)-5-[4-(prop-2-ynyloxy)phenyl]-4,5-dihydropyrazole-1-carbothioamide, C19H16BrN3OS, (V), and (RS)-3-(4-methoxyphenyl)-5-[4-(prop-2-ynyloxy)phenyl]-4,5-dihydropyrazole-1-carbothioamide, C20H19N3O2S, (VI), the reduced pyrazole ring adopts an envelope conformation with the C atom bearing the 4-prop-2-ynyloxy)phenyl substituent, which occupies the axial site, displaced from the plane of the four ring atoms. Compounds (IV) and (V) are isomorphous and their molecules are linked into chains of edge-fused rings by a combination of N—H...S and C—H...S hydrogen bonds. The molecules of (VI) are linked into sheets by a combination of N—H...S, N—H...N and C—H...π(arene) hydrogen bonds. Comparisons are made with the structures of some related compounds.