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  • Molecular structure of nitrogen-linked methyltetrazole-saccharinates
    Publication . Ismael, Amin; Paixão, J. A.; Fausto, R.; Cristiano, Maria Lurdes Santos
    The molecular structures of nitrogen-linked 1- and 2-methyltetrazole-saccharinates, were investigated in the crystalline phase using X-ray crystallography and infrared and Raman spectroscopies, complemented by quantum chemical calculations performed at the DFT(B3LYP)/6-31++G(d,p) level of theory for the isolated molecules. In the neat crystalline solid (space group P 1, a = 6.9763 Å, b = 8.3097 Å, c = 10.0737 Å, a = 96.517 , b = 107.543 , c = 99.989 ; Z = 2), 1-methyltetrazole-saccharinate units assume the most stable configuration for the isolated molecule, (1H)-1-methytetrazole iminosaccharin tautomeric form (1MTIS), with the N@C spacer linking the two heterocycles. On the other hand, neat crystalline 2-methyl derivative units (space group P 1, a = 7.8010 Å, b = 8.6724 Å, c = 9.4984 Å, a = 114.083 , b = 107.823 , c = 93.080 ; Z = 2) exist in the (2H)-2-methytetrazole aminosaccharin tautomeric form (2MTAS), with the two heterocycles connected by an NH spacer. In both crystals, the structure consists of a packing of dimeric units, the dimers formed via hydrogen bonding involving either the NH group of the saccharyl system (1MTIS) or the spacer amine group (2MTAS). In the former, the hydrogen bond is bifurcated and the NH group acts as a donor both towards a neighbor molecule and an N atom of the tetrazole ring, forming an intramolecular hydrogen bond. The observed difference in the crystallographic basic units of the two compounds reveals the prevalence of the H-bond networks in determining the structural preferences of the tetrazole-saccharinates in the solid state. Such structural flexibility appears also to be of potential interest in the design of new ligands based on the tetrazole-saccharinate framework. The relative strengths of the H-bonds in the crystals of the two compounds were evaluated through inspection of their vibrational spectra and empirical correlations between spectroscopic data and the H-bond enthalpies and distances.
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  • Structural investigation of nitrogen-linked saccharinate–tetrazole
    Publication . Gómez-Zavaglia, A.; Ismael, Amin; Cabral, Lília; Kaczor, A.; Paixão, J. A.; Fausto, R.; Cristiano, Maria Lurdes Santos
    The molecular structure of nitrogen-linked saccharinate–tetrazole, N-(1,1-dioxo-1,2-benzisothiazol-3-yl)-amine-1H-tetrazole (BAT), was investigated in the crystalline state using X-ray crystallography and infrared and Raman spectroscopies, and isolated in argon matrix by infrared spectroscopy. Interpretation of the experimental results was supported by quantum chemical calculations undertaken at the DFT(B3LYP)/6-311++G(3df,3pd) level of theory. In the neat crystalline solid (space group C2/c, a = 21.7493(3) Å, b = 8.85940(10) Å, c = 10.76900(10) Å, b = 103.3300(10) deg; Z = 8), BAT units exist in the (1H)-tetrazole aminosaccharin tautomeric form, with the NH spacer establishing a hydrogen bond to the nitrogen in position-4 of the tetrazole group of a neighbour molecule, and the NH group of the tetrazole fragment forming a bifurcated H-bond to the saccharyl nitrogen of the same molecule and to one of the oxygen atoms of a second neighbour molecule. On the other hand, according to both the matrix isolation infrared studies and the theoretical calculations, the isolated BAT molecule exists preferentially as the (1H)-tetrazole iminosaccharin tautomer, where the main stabilizing interaction is the intramolecular H-bond established between the NH group of the saccharyl ring and the tetrazole nitrogen atom in position 4. A detailed conformational analysis of the studied molecule and full assignment of the vibrational spectra for both the matrix-isolated compound and crystalline sample were undertaken.
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