Synthesis and crystal structures of 2-(ferrocenylcarbonyl)benzoic acid and 3-ferrocenylphthalide

Autor: Jonathan T Bergeron, Uttam R. Pokharel, Frank R. Fronczek
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Acta Crystallographica Section E: Crystallographic Communications, Vol 76, Iss 7, Pp 1163-1167 (2020)
Acta Crystallographica Section E: Crystallographic Communications
ISSN: 2056-9890
Popis: 2-Ferrocenyl­carbonyl­benzoic acid (C18H14FeO3) was synthesized from the Friedel–Crafts acyl­ation of ferrocene with phthalic anhydride, and the product was reduced to 3-ferrocenylphthalide (C18H14FeO2) using Zn(Cu) in aqueous sodium hydroxide. Both compounds were characterized using IR, NMR, and single-crystal X-ray analysis.
The title compounds, 2-(ferrocenylcarbon­yl)benzoic acid, [Fe(C5H5)(C13H9O3)], 1, and 3-ferrocenylphthalide [systematic name: 3-ferrocenyl-2-benzo­furan-1(3H)-one], [Fe(C5H5)(C13H9O2)], 2, have been synthesized and structurally characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. The crystal structure of compound 1 was solved recently at room temperature [Qin, Y. (2019 ▸). CSD Communication (CCDC deposition number 1912662). CCDC, Cambridge, England]. Here we report a redetermination of its crystal structure at 90 K with improved precision by a factor of about three. The mol­ecular structures of both compounds exhibit a typical sandwich structure. In the crystal packing of compound 1, each mol­ecule engages in inter­molecular hydrogen bonding, forming a centrosymmetric dimer with graph-set notation R 2 2 (8) and an O⋯O distance of 2.6073 (15) Å. There are weak C—H⋯O and C—H⋯π inter­actions in the crystal packing of compound 2. The phthalide moiety in 2 is oriented roughly perpendicular to the ferrocene backbone, with a dihedral angle of 77.4 (2)°.
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