Structures of three substituted arenesulfonamides from X-ray powder diffraction data using the differential evolution technique
The structures of three substituted arenesulfonamides have been solved from laboratory X-ray powder diffraction data, using a new direct-space structure solution method based on a differential evolution algorithm, and refined by the Rietveld method. In 2-toluenesulfonamide, C7H9NO2S (I) (tetragonal I41/a, Z = 16), the molecules are linked by N—H...O=S hydrogen bonds into a three-dimensional framework. In 3-nitrobenzenesulfonamide, C6H6N2O4S (II) (monoclinic P21, Z = 2), N—H...O=S hydrogen bonds produce molecular ladders, which are linked into sheets by C—H...O=S hydrogen bonds: the nitro group does not participate in the hydrogen bonding. Molecules of 4-nitrobenzenesulfonamide, C6H6N2O4S (III) (monoclinic P21/n, Z = 4), are linked into sheets by four types of hydrogen bond, N—H...O=S, N—H...O(nitro), C—H...O=S and C—H...O(nitro), and the sheets are weakly linked by aromatic π...π stacking interactions.