Polysulfonylamine, CXLVII [1]. Die ersten N,N-disulfonylierten Thioharnstoffe: Synthese von (RSO2)2N-C(S)-NMe2 (R = Me, 4-Me-C6H4) und Kristallstruktur der Ditosylverbindung / Polysulfonylamines, CXLVII [1]. The First N,N-Disulfonylated Thioureas: Synthesis of (RSO2)2N-C(S)-NMe2 (R = Me, 4-Me-C6H4) and Crystal Structure of the Ditosyl Compound
The moisture-sensitive title compounds were obtained in good yields by treating the corresponding silver salts AgN(SO2R)2 with the thiocarbamoyl chloride Me2NC(S)Cl in acetonitrile. In the NMR solution spectra of the novel thioureas, as recorded at room temperature for 13C and up to 120 °C for 1H, the Me2N group invariably gives rise to two distinct resonances, reflecting unusually high barriers to rotation about the C(S)-NMe2 bond. The crystal structure of the ditosyl compound (triclinic, space group P1̅, X-ray diffraction at -130 °C) contains two independent molecules A and B, in which the bond lengths and angles are nearly identical, whereas the conformations exhibit pronounced discrepancies. The amide N and thiocarbonyl C atoms have trigonal-planar environments, but the S -N -S planes are strikingly rotated into approximately perpendicular orientations relative to the planar C2N-C(S)-N moieties. Other remarkable features of the molecular structures are the exceedingly long C(S)-NS2 bonds [mean: 145.4(3) pm] and the concomitantly short C -S and C(S)-NC2 bonds [mean values: 164.8(2), 132.6(3) pm]. The packing is governed by a three-dimensional system of weak hydrogen bonds and may be viewed as a self-clathrate, in which (B)2 dimers constructed from C-H···S=C interactions are inserted as guest species into parallel tunnels between (A)∞ tapes based upon short C-H···O=S contacts.