scholarly journals Tetrahydroberberine, a pharmacologically active naturally occurring alkaloid

2015 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 262-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Subramanya Pingali ◽  
James P. Donahue ◽  
Florastina Payton-Stewart

Tetrahydroberberine (systematic name: 9,10-dimethoxy-5,8,13,13a-tetrahydro-6H-benzo[g][1,3]benzodioxolo[5,6-a]quinolizine), C20H21NO4, a widely distributed naturally occurring alkaloid, has been crystallized as a racemic mixture about an inversion center. A bent conformation of the molecule is observed, with an angle of 24.72 (5)° between the arene rings at the two ends of the reduced quinolizinium core. The intermolecular hydrogen bonds that play an apparent role in crystal packing are 1,3-benzodioxole –CH2...OCH3and –OCH3...OCH3interactions between neighboring molecules.

2001 ◽  
Vol 56 (9) ◽  
pp. 871-880 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerhard Müller ◽  
Martin Lutz

Abstract N-Acetyl-L-alanine methylester crystallizes in the orthorhombic space group P212121 with one molecule in the asymmetric unit (a = 7.768(1), b = 9.606(1), c = 10.215(2) Å, Z = 4). The individual molecules are linked into infinite strands by intermolecular hydrogen bonds between the amide hydrogen atom as donor and the acetyl oxygen atom as acceptor. The strands run parallel to the crystallographic b axis. The respective racemate, N-acetyl-DL-alanine methylester, crystallizes in the monoclinic space group P 21/n with three molecules in the asymmetric unit (a = 14.442(3), b = 8.467(2), c = 19.336(5) Å, β = 93.68(1)°, Z = 12). Again, the individual molecules are linked into infinite strands by N-H···O= Cacetyl hydrogen bonds which run along the crystallographic a axis. The individual strands are made up of molecules of opposite chirality in a 2:1 ratio. More specifically, one set of strands consists of molecules in the sequence [D, D, L,]∞ while a second set has the sequence [L, L, D]∞ as imposed by the centrosymmetry o f the space group. Thus, although crystals o f N-acetyl-DL-alanine methylester contain equal amounts of the molecules of opposite chirality, the strand formation through intermolecular hydrogen bonds leads to an incom plete resolution of the racemic mixture of molecules within one strand. The reason for the preference of the observed structure o f N-acetyl-DL-alanine methylester over spontaneous resolution is seen in the optimization of hydrogen bonding within one strand versus the overall crystal packing energy. Some principles of the crystallization of achiral molecules, chiral molecules, and racemates are briefly reviewed, as is the phenomenon of spontaneous resolution.


2021 ◽  
Vol 1227 ◽  
pp. 129509
Author(s):  
Rimma G. Savchenko ◽  
Ekaterina S. Mescheryakova ◽  
Kamil Sh. Bikmukhametov ◽  
Arthur R. Tulyabaev ◽  
Lyudmila V. Parfenova ◽  
...  

2006 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. o1414-o1416
Author(s):  
Sai-Feng Pei ◽  
Cui-Rong Sun ◽  
Mao-Lin Hu ◽  
Yuan-Jiang Pan

The title salt, bis(methyl 3,4-didehydroibogamin-6-ium-18-carboxylate) (2R,3R)-tartrate trihydrate, 2C21H25N2O2 +·C4H4O6 2−·3H2O, contains two catharanthinium cations, a (2R,3R)-tartrate anion and three water solvent molecules. The cation contains an indole ring system with a planar conformation and a seven-membered nitrogen-containing ring with a distorted chair conformation. A network of O—H...O and N—H...O intermolecular hydrogen bonds stabilizes the crystal packing.


2009 ◽  
Vol 65 (6) ◽  
pp. m633-m633 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian-Hong Bi

In the title compound, [Co(C10H12N2O)2(H2O)2](NO3)2·2H2O, the CoIIion, located on an inversion center, istrans-coordinated by twoN,O-bidentate chelating (E)-3-(dimethylamino)-1-(2-pyridyl)prop-2-en-1-one ligands and by two water molecules in a slightly distorted octahedral geometry. Intermolecular O—H...O hydrogen bonds link the cations, anions and water molecules into layers parallel to theacplane. The crystal packing also exhibits weak intermolecular C—H...O hydrogen bonds.


2000 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teresa Borowiak ◽  
Irena Wolska ◽  
Artur Korzański ◽  
Wolfgang Milius ◽  
Wolfgang Schnick ◽  
...  

The crystal structures of two compounds containing enaminone heterodiene systems and forming intermolecular hydrogen bonds N-H·O are reported: 1) 3-ethoxycarbonyl-2-methyl-4-pyridone (hereafter ETPY) and 2) 3-ethoxycarbonyl-2-phenyl-6-methoxycarbonyl-5,6-di-hydro-4-pyridone (hereafter EPPY). The crystal packing is controlled by intermolecular hydro­ gen bonds N-H·O = C connecting the heteroconjugated enaminone groups in infinite chains. In ETPY crystals the intermolecular hydrogen bond involves the heterodienic pathway with the highest π-delocalization that is effective for a very short N·O distance of 2.701(9) Å (average from two molecules in the asymmetric unit). Probably due to the steric hindrance, the hydrogen bond in EPPY is formed following the heterodienic pathway that involves the ester C = O group, although π-delocalization along this pathway is less than that along the pyridone-part pathway resulting in a longer N·O distance of 2.886(3) Å


2012 ◽  
Vol 68 (11) ◽  
pp. o475-o480
Author(s):  
Krishnan Ravikumar ◽  
Balasubramanian Sridhar ◽  
Venkatasubramanian Hariharakrishnan ◽  
Awadesh Narain Singh

The structures of the novel triazolobenzothiazines 2,4-dihydro-1H-benzo[b][1,2,4]triazolo[4,3-d][1,4]thiazin-1-one (IDPH-791), C9H7N3OS, (I), a potential muscle relaxant, its benzoyl derivative, 2-(2-oxo-2-phenylethyl)-2,4-dihydro-1H-benzo[b][1,2,4]triazolo[4,3-d][1,4]thiazin-1-one, C20H17N3O4S, (II), and the β-keto ester derivative, ethyl 3-oxo-2-(1-oxo-2,4-dihydro-1H-benzo[b][1,2,4]triazolo[4,3-d][1,4]thiazin-2-yl)-3-phenylpropanoate, C17H13N3O2S, (III), are the first examples of benzothiazine-fused triazoles in the crystallographic literature. The heterocyclic thiazine rings in all three structures adopt a distorted half-chair conformation. Compound (III) exists in thetrans-β-diketo form. Other than N—H...O hydrogen bonds in (I) forming dimers, no formal intermolecular hydrogen bonds are involved in the crystal packing of any of the three structures, which is dominated by C—H...O/N and π–π stacking interactions.


Author(s):  
K. Osahon Ogbeide ◽  
Rajesh Kumar ◽  
Mujeeb-Ur-Rehman ◽  
Bodunde Owolabi ◽  
Abiodun Falodun ◽  
...  

The title compound, C29H36O5, a cassane-type diterpenoid {systematic name: (4aR,5R,6R,6aS,7R,11aS,11bR)-4a,6-dihydroxy-4,4,7,11b-tetramethyl-1,2,3,4,4a,5,6,6a,7,11,11a,11b-dodecahydrophenanthro[3,2-b]furan-5-yl 3-phenylprop-2-enoate}, was isolated from a medicinally important plant,Caesalpinia pulcherrima(Fabaceae). In the molecule, three cyclohexane rings aretrans-fused and adopt chair, chair and half-chair conformations. In the crystal, molecules are linkedviaO—H...O hydrogen bonds, forming a tape structure along theb-axis direction. The tapes are further linked into a double-tape structure through C—H...π interactions. The Hirshfeld surface analysis indicates that the contributions to the crystal packing are H...H (65.5%), C...H (18.7%), O...H (14.5%) and C...O (0.3%).


2006 ◽  
Vol 62 (5) ◽  
pp. o2088-o2089
Author(s):  
Mustafa Odabaşoğlu ◽  
Orhan Büyükgüngör

The crystal packing of the title compound, C13H10O2N2, is stabilized by one N—H...N and two C—H...O intermolecular hydrogen bonds and also by two C—H...π interactions. The N—H...N and C—H...O hydrogen bonds generate an edge-fused R 3 3(19) ring motif and the phthalide section of the molecule is planar. The dihedral angle between the phthalide group and the pyridyl ring is 87.28 (10)°.


2012 ◽  
Vol 68 (7) ◽  
pp. o253-o256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham Smith ◽  
Urs D. Wermuth

The structures of the cyclic imidescis-2-(2-fluorophenyl)-3a,4,5,6,7,7a-hexahydroisoindole-1,3-dione, C14H14FNO2, (I), andcis-2-(4-fluorophenyl)-3a,4,5,6,7,7a-hexahydroisoindoline-1,3-dione, C14H14FNO2, (III), and the open-chain amide acidrac-cis-2-[(3-fluorophenyl)carbamoyl]cyclohexane-1-carboxylic acid, C14H16FNO3, (II), are reported. Cyclic imides (I) and (III) are conformationally similar, with comparable ring rotations about the imide N—Carbond [the dihedral angles between the benzene ring and the five-membered isoindole ring are 55.40 (8)° for (I) and 51.83 (7)° for (III)]. There are no formal intermolecular hydrogen bonds involved in the crystal packing of either (I) or (III). With the acid (II), in which themeta-related F-atom substituent is rotationally disordered (0.784:0.216), the amide group lies slightly out of the benzene plane [the interplanar dihedral angle is 39.7 (1)°]. Intermolecular amide–carboxyl N—H...O hydrogen-bonding interactions between centrosymmetrically related molecules form stacks extending downb, and these are linked acrosscby carboxyl–amide O—H...O hydrogen bonds, giving two-dimensional layered structures which lie in the (011) plane. The structures reported here represent examples of compounds analogous to the phthalimides or phthalanilic acids and have little precedence in the crystallographic literature.


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