Structure Reports Online

Volume 66, Part 4 (April 2010)

metal-organic compounds

tk2637 scheme

Acta Cryst. (2010). E66, m396 [ doi:10.1107/S1600536810008342 ]

2-Ferrocenyl-N-(6-methyl-2-pyridyl)benzamide

J. F. Gallagher, S. Alley and A. J. Lough

Abstract: The title compound, [Fe(C₅H₅)(C₁₈H₁₅N₂O)], a product of the reaction of 2-ferrocenylbenzoic acid and 2-amino-6-methylpyridine, crystallizes with two dissimilar molecules in the asymmetric unit. In one molecule, the picoline amide group is directed away from the 2-ferrocenylbenzene moiety (anti) whereas in the other, these are proximate (syn). In the crystal structure, molecules aggregate into dimers via cyclic, asymmetric N-HN interactions with graph set R₂²(8), and are further augmented via intramolecular C-HO=C and interdimer C-H [pi] (arene) interactions. Dimers are linked into chains along the [102] direction via weak C-HO hydrogen bonds.