The hierarchies of hydrogen bonds in salts/cocrystals of isoniazid and its Schiff base – a case study

Abstract

A series of two salts of isoniazid and two cocrystals of its Schiff base have been synthesised and characterized using FT-IR, ¹H-NMR, DSC, XRPD and SCXRD. The crystal structures with 2,5-dihydroxybenzoic acid, 2,6-dihydroxy benzoic acid, 3-aminobenzoic acid and o-phthalic acid have been deduced. In all complexes the involvement of pyridine N (proton transfer/robust synthon) is noticed. The unit cell similarity index was calculated between two cocrystals (N-(propan-2-ylidene)isonicotinohydrazide)·(2,5-dihydroxybenzoic acid) and (3-aminobenozic acid)·(N-(propan-2-ylidene)isonicotinohydrazide). Furthermore, the index was compared with the reported complexes and it was found to be close to zero indicating isostructurality. The correlation between the N_Pyr–H⋯O (acid) hydrogen bond distance for the reported cocrystals and their corresponding pK_a values has been deduced and validated.