True symmetry or pseudosymmetry: 5-amino-1-(4-methylphenylsulfonyl)-4-pyrazolin-3-one and a comparison with its 1-phenylsulfonyl analogue
The title compound, C10H11N3O3S, (I), crystallizes as the NH tautomer. The two rings subtend an interplanar angle of 72.54 (4)°. An intramolecular hydrogen bond is formed from the NH2group to a sulfonyl O atom. The molecular packing involves layers of molecules parallel to thebcplane atx≃ 0, 1etc., with two classical linear hydrogen bonds (amino–sulfonyl and pyrazoline–carbonyl N—H...O) and a further interaction (amino–sulfonyl N—H...O) completing a three-centre system with the intramolecular contact. The analogous phenyl derivative, (II) [Elgemeie, Hanfy, Hopf & Jones (1998).Acta Cryst.C54, 136–138], crystallizes with essentially the same unit cell and packing pattern, but with two independent molecules that differ significantly in the orientation of the phenyl groups. The space group isP21/cfor (I) butP21for (II), which is thus a pseudosymmetric counterpart of (I).