Crystal structure, Hirshfeld surface analysis and DFT studies of 1-benzyl-3-[(1-benzyl-1 H-1,2,3-triazol-5-yl)meth-yl]-2,3-di-hydro-1 H-1,3-benzo-diazol-2-one monohydrate

Acta Crystallogr E Crystallogr Commun. 2020 Jan 1;76(Pt 1):95-101. doi: 10.1107/S2056989019016876.

Abstract

In the title mol-ecule, C24H21N5O·H2O, the di-hydro-benzo-diazole moiety is not quite planar, while the whole mol-ecule adopts a U-shaped conformation in which there is a close approach of the two benzyl groups. In the crystal, chains of alternating mol-ecules and lattice water extending along [201] are formed by O-HUncoordW⋯ODhyr and O-HUncoordW⋯NTrz (UncoordW = uncoordinated water, Dhyr = di-hydro and Trz = triazole) hydrogen bonds. The chains are connected into layers parallel to (010) by C-HTrz⋯OUncoordW hydrogen bonds with the di-hydro-benzo-diazole units in adjacent layers inter-calating to form head-to-tail π-stacking [centroid-to-centroid distance = 3.5694 (11) Å] inter-actions between them, which generates the overall three-dimensional structure. Hirshfeld surface analysis indicates that the most important contributions for the crystal packing are from H⋯H (52.1%), H⋯C/C⋯H (23.8%) and O⋯H/H⋯O (11.2%) inter-actions. Hydrogen-bonding and van der Waals inter-actions are the dominant inter-actions in the crystal packing. Density functional theory (DFT) optimized structures at the B3LYP/ 6-311 G(d,p) level are compared with the experimentally determined mol-ecular structure in the solid state. The HOMO-LUMO behaviour was elucidated to determine the energy gap.

Keywords: Hirshfeld surface; crystal structure; di­hydro­benzo­diazole; hydrogen bond; triazole; π-stacking.

Grants and funding

This work was funded by National Science Foundation grant 1228232. Tulane University grant . Hacettepe Üniversitesi grant 013 D04 602 004.