Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-1-2015

Publication Title

Acta Crystallographica E: Crystallographic Communications

Abstract

In the title compound, C18H14O, with systematic name 1-(anthracen-9-yl)-2-methylprop-2-en-1-one, the ketonic C atom lies 0.2030 (16) angstrom out of the anthrylring-system plane. The dihedral angle between the planes of the anthryl and methacryloyl moieties is 88.30 (3)degrees and the stereochemistry about the Csp(2) - Csp(2) bond in the side chain is transoid. In the crystal, the end rings of the anthryl units in adjacent molecules associate in parallel-planar orientations [shortest centroid-centroid distance = 3.6320 (7) angstrom]. A weak hydrogen bond is observed between an aromatic H atom and the O atom of a molecule displaced by translation in the a-axis direction, forming sheets of parallel-planar anthryl groups packing in this direction.

Comments

The authors would like to thank the Graduate College and Chemistry Department at Cleveland State University for support, the Ohio Supercomputing Center for a grant of computer time, and the National Science Foundation (CHE-0840446) for funds used to purchase the Bruker APEXII DUO X-ray diffractometer used in this research.

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DOI

10.1107/S2056989015004090

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Volume

71

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