The crystal and molecular structure of thiamine iodide hydroiodide
The X-ray crystal structure of thiamine iodide hydroiodide, C12H18N4OSI2, has been determined. The unit cell parameters are: a = 13.835(7), b = 7.442(4), c = 20.243(9) Å, β = 120.52(7)°, monoclinic space group P21/c, Z = 4. A total of 1445 reflections having F2 > 2σ(F2), 2θ < 40° were collected on a Picker 4-circle diffractometer with MoKα radiation by the 2θ scan technique. The structure was solved by the heavy-atom method. The iodide and sulphur atoms were refined anisotropically; only positional parameters were refined for the hydrogen atoms. Successive full-matrix least-squares refinements yielded an unweighted R-factor of 0.054. The pyrimidine ring is protonated on the ring nitrogen opposite the amino group. The relative disposition of the pyrimidine and thiazolium rings is similar to that observed in most other thiamine structures. The β-hydroxyethyl side chain of the thiazolium ring is folded in such a way that there is a short S … O contact, 2.97 Å in length. The iodide ions are involved in a number of weak hydrogen bonds.