Issue 2, 1982

Probable absence of lattice control of cistrans-isomerization in 2-ethoxy-cis-cinnamic acid

Abstract

The crystal structure of the title compound has been determined from 1 380 reflections measured by diffractometer. Crystals are orthorhombic, space group Pbca, with a= 10.811(3), b= 12.137(3), c= 15.233(4)Å, Z= 8. The structure was solved by direct methods and refined by least-squares to give R 0.041. The acid is present in the crystal in a non-planar conformation and forms centrosymmetric hydrogen-bonded dimers (O–H ⋯ 0, 2.651 Å). The plane of the double bond, C(1)–C(β)–C(α)–C(7), is inclined to the plane of the phenyl ring at 59.4°, and to that of the carhoxy-group at 12.3°. There is a limiting intramolecular contact between the carbonyl oxygen O(1) and C(6) of the phenyl ring. It has bean postulated that the solid-state cistrans isomerization of such cinnamic acids is lattice controlled, through interactions between [double bond splayed left]C[double bond, length half m-dash]C[double bond splayed right] bonds in neighbouring molecules in close contact (4.0–4.4 Å). It is shown that this crystal, where isomerization is known to occur, contains no such suitable contacts.

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J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 2, 1982, 191-193

Probable absence of lattice control of cistrans-isomerization in 2-ethoxy-cis-cinnamic acid

R. F. Bryan and P. Hartley, J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 2, 1982, 191 DOI: 10.1039/P29820000191

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