Arthur J. Banister, Andrei S. Batsanov, Owen G. Dawe, Penelope L. Herbertson, Judith A. K. Howard, Sean Lynn, Iain May, J. Nicholas B. Smith, Jeremy M. Rawson, Toni E. Rogers, Brian K. Tanner, Guillermo Antorrena and Fernando Palacio
Two dithiadiazolyl radicals of formula
[F2C6H3CNSSN
]
˙ were prepared and characterised by X-ray
crystallography; in the solid state the 2′,3′-difluoro
isomer forms discrete twisted dimers through a spin-paired singly
occupied–singly occupied molecular orbital interaction with an
intra-dimer
S · · ·
S distance of 3.020(4) Å, whereas the
2′,5′-isomer is composed of uniform stacks with unexpectedly
long intra-stack
S · · ·
S contacts [3.544(3) Å].