4-[(E)-3-(4-Methyl-phen-yl)-3-oxoprop-1-en-1-yl]benzo-nitrile

Dandavathi Arunkumar; Seranthimata Samshuddin; Mhammed Ansar; Joel T Mague; Youssef Ramli

doi:10.1107/S2414314620008007

4-[(E)-3-(4-Methyl-phen-yl)-3-oxoprop-1-en-1-yl]benzo-nitrile

IUCrdata. 2020 Jun 26;5(Pt 6):x200800. doi: 10.1107/S2414314620008007. eCollection 2020 Jun.

Authors

Dandavathi Arunkumar¹, Seranthimata Samshuddin¹, Mhammed Ansar², Joel T Mague³, Youssef Ramli²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry, Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara Institute of Technology, Ujire -574 240, and affiliated to, Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi, Karnataka, India.
² Laboratory of Medicinal Chemistry, Drug Sciences Research Center, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco.
³ Department of Chemistry, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118, USA.

Abstract

In the title mol-ecule C₁₇H₁₃NO, the phenyl rings are inclined to one another by 48.04 (9)°. In the crystal, weak C-H⋯π(ring) inter-actions form a layered structure parallel to the ab plane.

Keywords: benzonitrile; carbonyl; chalcone; crystal structure; olefin.

Grants and funding

The support of NSF–MRI grant No. 1228232 for the purchase of the diffractometer and Tulane University for support of the Tulane Crystallography Laboratory are gratefully acknowledged.