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. 2011 Nov 9;67(Pt 12):o3227. doi: 10.1107/S160053681104640X

rac-N,N′-Dimethyl-N,N′-(1,1′-binaphthyl-2,2′-di­yl)diformamide

Jing Zeng a, Seik Weng Ng b,c,*
PMCID: PMC3238889  PMID: 22199742

Abstract

The mol­ecule of the title compound, C24H20N2O2, lies on a twofold rotation axis that relates one 2-(N-methyl­formamido)­naphthyl unit to the other. The N-methyl­formamido substituent is twisted by 54.9 (1)° with respect to the naphthalene fused-ring system; the two fused-ring systems are themselves twisted by 70.3 (1)°.

Related literature

For the synthesis of 2,2′-bis­(methyl­amino)-1,1′-binaphthyl, see: Miyano et al. (1984).graphic file with name e-67-o3227-scheme1.jpg

Experimental

Crystal data

  • C24H20N2O2

  • M r = 368.42

  • Tetragonal, Inline graphic

  • a = 11.6548 (12) Å

  • c = 13.9171 (15) Å

  • V = 1890.4 (3) Å3

  • Z = 4

  • Mo Kα radiation

  • μ = 0.08 mm−1

  • T = 113 K

  • 0.34 × 0.20 × 0.16 mm

Data collection

  • Rigaku Saturn CCD area-detector diffractometer

  • Absorption correction: multi-scan (CrystalClear; Rigaku/MSC, 2005) T min = 0.972, T max = 0.987

  • 11169 measured reflections

  • 1091 independent reflections

  • 1051 reflections with I > 2σ(I)

  • R int = 0.044

Refinement

  • R[F 2 > 2σ(F 2)] = 0.038

  • wR(F 2) = 0.101

  • S = 1.07

  • 1091 reflections

  • 129 parameters

  • 1 restraint

  • H-atom parameters constrained

  • Δρmax = 0.20 e Å−3

  • Δρmin = −0.14 e Å−3

Data collection: CrystalClear (Rigaku/MSC, 2005); cell refinement: CrystalClear; data reduction: CrystalClear; program(s) used to solve structure: SHELXS97 (Sheldrick, 2008); program(s) used to refine structure: SHELXL97 (Sheldrick, 2008); molecular graphics: X-SEED (Barbour, 2001); software used to prepare material for publication: publCIF (Westrip, 2010).

Supplementary Material

Crystal structure: contains datablock(s) global, I. DOI: 10.1107/S160053681104640X/xu5377sup1.cif

e-67-o3227-sup1.cif (13KB, cif)

Structure factors: contains datablock(s) I. DOI: 10.1107/S160053681104640X/xu5377Isup2.hkl

e-67-o3227-Isup2.hkl (54.1KB, hkl)

Supplementary material file. DOI: 10.1107/S160053681104640X/xu5377Isup3.cml

Additional supplementary materials: crystallographic information; 3D view; checkCIF report

Acknowledgments

We thank Xinjiang Normal University and the University of Malaya for supporting this study.

supplementary crystallographic information

Comment

We report here the methylation of commercially available racemic 2,2'-diamino-1,1'-binaphthyl to yield 2,2'-bis(methylamino)-1,1'-binaphthyl. The compound should react with triethyl orthoformate to yield an imidzolium salt. The reaction with ethyl formate, an unintended similar-sounding reagent, gave 2,2'-bis(N-methyformido)-1,1'-binaphthyl (Scheme I) instead.

The C24H20N2O2 molecules lies on a twofold rotation axis that relates one N-methylformamido)-1-naphthyl moiety to the other (Fig. 1). The N-methylformamido substituent is twisted by 54.9 (1) ° with respect to the naphathalene fused-ring; the two fused-rings are themselves twisted by 70.3 (1) °.

Experimental

2,2'-Bis(methylamino)-1,1'-binaphthyl was prepared by treatment of racemic 2,2'-diamino-1,1'-binaphthyl (purchased from Aldrich Chemical Company) with ethyl chloroformate in benzene in the presence of pyridine, followed by reduction with lithium aluminium hydride in tetrahydrofuran (Miyano et al., 1984). An ethyl formate solution (10 ml) of 2,2'-bis(methylamino)-1,1'-binaphthyl (156 mg, 0.50 mmol) was heated at 327 K for 10 h. The solvent was removed under reduced pressure and the residue was purified by column chromatography (eluent: ethyl acetate/petroleum ether 10/1) to give the title compound (158 mg, 86%) as a white solid. Crystals were obtained upon recrystallized from a dichloromethane-hexane mixture.

Refinement

Carbon-bound H-atoms were placed in calculated positions (C–H 0.95–0.98 Å) and were included in the refinement in the riding model approximation, with Uiso(H) set to 1.2–1.5Ueq(C). In the absence of heavy atoms, 1000 Friedel pairs were merged.

Figures

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1.

Thermal ellipsoid plot (Barbour, 2001) of C24H20N2O2 at the 70% probability level; hydrogen atoms are drawn as spheres of arbitrary radius. The unlabeled atoms are related to the labeled one by 2 - x, -y, z.

Crystal data

C24H20N2O2 Dx = 1.294 Mg m3
Mr = 368.42 Mo Kα radiation, λ = 0.71070 Å
Tetragonal, I41 Cell parameters from 2958 reflections
Hall symbol: I 4bw θ = 2.3–27.1°
a = 11.6548 (12) Å µ = 0.08 mm1
c = 13.9171 (15) Å T = 113 K
V = 1890.4 (3) Å3 Prism, colorless
Z = 4 0.34 × 0.20 × 0.16 mm
F(000) = 776

Data collection

Rigaku Saturn CCD area-detector diffractometer 1091 independent reflections
Radiation source: rotating anode 1051 reflections with I > 2σ(I)
confocal Rint = 0.044
Detector resolution: 7.31 pixels mm-1 θmax = 27.1°, θmin = 2.3°
ω and φ scans h = −14→14
Absorption correction: multi-scan (CrystalClear; Rigaku/MSC, 2005) k = −14→14
Tmin = 0.972, Tmax = 0.987 l = −17→17
11169 measured reflections

Refinement

Refinement on F2 Secondary atom site location: difference Fourier map
Least-squares matrix: full Hydrogen site location: inferred from neighbouring sites
R[F2 > 2σ(F2)] = 0.038 H-atom parameters constrained
wR(F2) = 0.101 w = 1/[σ2(Fo2) + (0.0702P)2 + 0.3273P] where P = (Fo2 + 2Fc2)/3
S = 1.07 (Δ/σ)max = 0.001
1091 reflections Δρmax = 0.20 e Å3
129 parameters Δρmin = −0.14 e Å3
1 restraint Extinction correction: SHELXL97 (Sheldrick, 2008), Fc*=kFc[1+0.001xFc2λ3/sin(2θ)]-1/4
Primary atom site location: structure-invariant direct methods Extinction coefficient: 0.012 (3)

Fractional atomic coordinates and isotropic or equivalent isotropic displacement parameters (Å2)

x y z Uiso*/Ueq
O1 0.8311 (3) −0.0321 (2) 0.33342 (16) 0.0772 (9)
N1 0.85923 (17) 0.00005 (15) 0.17381 (13) 0.0284 (5)
C1 0.96952 (16) 0.05699 (16) 0.03106 (14) 0.0187 (4)
C2 0.89065 (18) 0.08195 (17) 0.10211 (15) 0.0215 (4)
C3 0.83669 (17) 0.19135 (17) 0.10642 (15) 0.0220 (4)
H3 0.7816 0.2067 0.1551 0.026*
C4 0.86360 (17) 0.27432 (16) 0.04105 (15) 0.0199 (4)
H4 0.8286 0.3477 0.0459 0.024*
C5 0.94283 (16) 0.25287 (15) −0.03388 (14) 0.0176 (4)
C6 0.99650 (16) 0.14242 (15) −0.03944 (14) 0.0172 (4)
C7 1.07543 (16) 0.12335 (17) −0.11571 (15) 0.0204 (4)
H7 1.1138 0.0516 −0.1202 0.024*
C8 1.09713 (17) 0.20650 (18) −0.18289 (15) 0.0229 (4)
H8 1.1490 0.1911 −0.2339 0.028*
C9 1.04310 (17) 0.31514 (18) −0.17716 (16) 0.0241 (5)
H9 1.0591 0.3724 −0.2239 0.029*
C10 0.96813 (17) 0.33714 (17) −0.10433 (16) 0.0222 (4)
H10 0.9322 0.4102 −0.1007 0.027*
C11 0.8095 (2) −0.11084 (19) 0.1472 (2) 0.0391 (6)
H11A 0.8619 −0.1726 0.1663 0.059*
H11B 0.7976 −0.1134 0.0775 0.059*
H11C 0.7358 −0.1208 0.1800 0.059*
C12 0.8630 (3) 0.0295 (2) 0.26773 (19) 0.0475 (8)
H12 0.8926 0.1030 0.2836 0.057*

Atomic displacement parameters (Å2)

U11 U22 U33 U12 U13 U23
O1 0.149 (3) 0.0543 (14) 0.0279 (12) 0.0017 (15) 0.0288 (14) 0.0093 (10)
N1 0.0414 (11) 0.0224 (9) 0.0214 (10) −0.0013 (8) 0.0095 (8) 0.0025 (7)
C1 0.0213 (9) 0.0166 (9) 0.0182 (9) −0.0009 (7) −0.0013 (7) −0.0022 (7)
C2 0.0268 (10) 0.0200 (9) 0.0179 (9) −0.0023 (8) 0.0009 (8) −0.0008 (8)
C3 0.0232 (10) 0.0226 (10) 0.0203 (9) −0.0009 (7) 0.0022 (8) −0.0053 (8)
C4 0.0229 (9) 0.0173 (9) 0.0196 (10) 0.0014 (7) −0.0029 (8) −0.0049 (7)
C5 0.0174 (9) 0.0166 (9) 0.0190 (9) −0.0011 (7) −0.0042 (7) −0.0016 (8)
C6 0.0172 (9) 0.0163 (9) 0.0179 (9) −0.0010 (7) −0.0035 (7) −0.0020 (7)
C7 0.0197 (9) 0.0195 (9) 0.0220 (10) 0.0011 (7) −0.0021 (8) −0.0013 (8)
C8 0.0219 (9) 0.0255 (10) 0.0215 (10) −0.0019 (8) 0.0035 (8) −0.0003 (8)
C9 0.0253 (10) 0.0211 (10) 0.0259 (11) −0.0051 (8) −0.0012 (8) 0.0058 (8)
C10 0.0231 (10) 0.0188 (10) 0.0246 (10) −0.0011 (7) −0.0052 (8) −0.0012 (8)
C11 0.0523 (15) 0.0288 (12) 0.0361 (13) −0.0120 (10) 0.0130 (12) 0.0041 (10)
C12 0.084 (2) 0.0345 (14) 0.0237 (12) 0.0020 (13) 0.0099 (13) 0.0022 (10)

Geometric parameters (Å, °)

O1—C12 1.220 (4) C5—C6 1.433 (2)
N1—C12 1.352 (3) C6—C7 1.422 (3)
N1—C2 1.429 (3) C7—C8 1.370 (3)
N1—C11 1.464 (3) C7—H7 0.9500
C1—C2 1.381 (3) C8—C9 1.416 (3)
C1—C6 1.433 (3) C8—H8 0.9500
C1—C1i 1.507 (4) C9—C10 1.363 (3)
C2—C3 1.423 (3) C9—H9 0.9500
C3—C4 1.364 (3) C10—H10 0.9500
C3—H3 0.9500 C11—H11A 0.9800
C4—C5 1.415 (3) C11—H11B 0.9800
C4—H4 0.9500 C11—H11C 0.9800
C5—C10 1.419 (3) C12—H12 0.9500
C12—N1—C2 119.83 (19) C8—C7—C6 121.21 (18)
C12—N1—C11 118.8 (2) C8—C7—H7 119.4
C2—N1—C11 120.98 (19) C6—C7—H7 119.4
C2—C1—C6 119.34 (16) C7—C8—C9 120.79 (19)
C2—C1—C1i 119.98 (15) C7—C8—H8 119.6
C6—C1—C1i 120.61 (15) C9—C8—H8 119.6
C1—C2—C3 120.87 (18) C10—C9—C8 119.68 (19)
C1—C2—N1 122.00 (17) C10—C9—H9 120.2
C3—C2—N1 117.12 (18) C8—C9—H9 120.2
C4—C3—C2 120.35 (18) C9—C10—C5 121.14 (18)
C4—C3—H3 119.8 C9—C10—H10 119.4
C2—C3—H3 119.8 C5—C10—H10 119.4
C3—C4—C5 121.08 (17) N1—C11—H11A 109.5
C3—C4—H4 119.5 N1—C11—H11B 109.5
C5—C4—H4 119.5 H11A—C11—H11B 109.5
C4—C5—C10 121.50 (16) N1—C11—H11C 109.5
C4—C5—C6 118.90 (17) H11A—C11—H11C 109.5
C10—C5—C6 119.59 (18) H11B—C11—H11C 109.5
C7—C6—C5 117.58 (17) O1—C12—N1 124.4 (3)
C7—C6—C1 122.99 (16) O1—C12—H12 117.8
C5—C6—C1 119.42 (17) N1—C12—H12 117.8

Symmetry codes: (i) −x+2, −y, z.

Footnotes

Supplementary data and figures for this paper are available from the IUCr electronic archives (Reference: XU5377).

References

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Supplementary Materials

Crystal structure: contains datablock(s) global, I. DOI: 10.1107/S160053681104640X/xu5377sup1.cif

e-67-o3227-sup1.cif (13KB, cif)

Structure factors: contains datablock(s) I. DOI: 10.1107/S160053681104640X/xu5377Isup2.hkl

e-67-o3227-Isup2.hkl (54.1KB, hkl)

Supplementary material file. DOI: 10.1107/S160053681104640X/xu5377Isup3.cml

Additional supplementary materials: crystallographic information; 3D view; checkCIF report


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