Crystal structure, Hirshfeld surface analysis and DFT studies of 2-[5-(4-methylbenzyl)-6-oxo-3-phenyl-1,6-dihydropyridazin-1-yl]acetic acid

Abstract

The title pyridazinone derivative, C20H18N2O3, is not planar. The phenyl ring and the pyridazine ring are inclined to each other by 10.55 (12)°, whereas the 4-methylbenzyl ring is nearly orthogonal to the pyridazine ring, with a dihedral angle of 72.97 (10)°. In the crystal, molecules are linked by pairs of O—H...O hydrogen bonds, forming inversion dimers with an R22(14) ring motif. The dimers are linked by C—H...O hydrogen bonds, generating ribbons propagating along the c-axis direction. The intermolecular interactions were additionally investigated using Hirshfeld surface analysis and two-dimensional fingerprint plots. They revealed that the most significant contributions to the crystal packing are from H...H (48.4%), H...O/O...H (21.8%) and H...C/C...H (20.4%) contacts. Molecular orbital calculations providing electron-density plots of HOMO and LUMO molecular orbitals and molecular electrostatic potentials (MEP) were also computed, both with the DFT/B3LYP/6–311 G++(d,p) basis set.

Keywords

• crystal structure
• hydrogen bonding
• dft
• hirshfeld surface analysis
• homo–lumo calculations