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The structure of (E)- and (Z)-methylcyanovinyl sulphone has been determined by gas electron diffraction and by X-ray crystallography. Considerably widened bond angles in the Z-isomer indicate steric repulsions across the CC bond. The conformer occurring in the crystal and prevailing in the gas phase has nearly eclipsed CC and SO bonds and is stabilized by an intramolecular hydrogen bond in the E-isomer, and by an attractive interaction, O···C(N) 2.78–2.81 A, in the Z-isomer. Parameters (rg with estimated total errors) SO, SCmean, CC, CN and OSCvinyl, OSCmethyl, CSC, SCC, CCC, OSO in the free E-isomer: 1.437(3), 1.781(4), 1.344(5). 1.165(3) A and 105.2(5), 110.2(2), 102.3(9), 114.9(6), 121.5(7), 121.4(7)°; in the free Z-isomer: 1.437(3), 1.780(4), 1.344(5), 1.168(3) A and 109.6(3), 104.3(3), 108.4(5), 124.7(4), 127.3(7), 119.8(0)°. Crystal data: E-isomer: P1, a=5.798(1), b=6.185(1), c=8.959(2) A, α=102.83(2), β=108.74(2), γ=92.18(2)°, Z=2,ϱm=1.476(7),ϱc=1.480 g cm−3; Z-isomer; P21/c, a=10.613(4), b=16.066(4), c=8.630(2) A, α=90, β=122.14(2), γ=90°, Z=8, ϱm=1.395(4), ϱc=1.398 g cm−3. There is an O⋯H contact of 2.26 A between the two independent molecules in the asymmetric unit of the Z-isomer. |