The crystal structures are reported of the isomeric compounds 2-(4-nitro-phen-yl)-3-phenyl-2,3-di-hydro-4H-1,3-benzo-thia-zin-4-one, (I), and 2-(2-nitro-phen-yl)-3-phenyl-2,3-di-hydro-4H-1,3-benzo-thia-zin-4-one, (II), both C20H14N2O3S, being the para-nitro and ortho-nitro forms, respectively, the meta-form of which is known [Yennawar et al. (2013). Acta Cryst. E69, o1679]. The six-membered thia-zone ring fused with a benzene ring displays a screw-boat conformation with a total puckering amplitude of 0.627 (1) Å in (I), and a near screw-boat conformation with a total puckering amplitude of 0.600 (1) Å in (II). The dihedral angles between the planes of the substituent nitrophenyl and phenyl and rings with the benzene ring of the parent benzo-thia-zone moiety are 75.93 (5) and 82.61 (5)° [in (I)], and 76.79 (6) and 71.66 (6)° [in (II)]. Weak inter-molecular C-H⋯O hydrogen-bonding inter-actions between aromatic H-atom donors and both a nitro-O atom and a thia-zone O-atom acceptor in (I) and a thia-zone O atom in (II) are present, forming in (I) a centrosymmetric 22-membered cyclic dimer which is extended through a similar inversion-related 14-membered cyclic hydrogen-bonding association into a zigzag chain structure extending along c. In (II), a single inter-molecular C-H⋯O hydrogen bond gives a chain structure extending along b. In addition, weak C-H⋯π inter-actions are present in both structures [minimum C⋯ring-centroid separations = 3.630 (2) and 3.581 (2) Å, respectively].
Keywords: C—H⋯π interactions; benzothiazine; crystal structure; hydrogen bonding; nitro-group interactions; screw-boat pucker.