Acta Crystallographica Section E (Jul 2013)

5-[(1R,2R,4R)-2-Methoxy-1,7,7-trimethylbicyclo[2.2.1]hept-2-yl]-1H-tetrazole

  • Jan W. Bats,
  • Peter Schell,
  • Joachim W. Engels

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600536813014700
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 69, no. 7
pp. o1028 – o1028

Abstract

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The title compound, C12H20N4O, undergoes a phase transition on cooling. The room-temperature structure is tetragonal (P43212, Z′ = 1), with the methoxybornyl group being extremely disordered. Below 213 K the structure is orthorhombic (P212121, Z′ = 2), with ordered molecules. The two independent molecules (A and B) have very similar conformations; significant differences only occur for the torsion angles about the Cbornyl—Ctetrazole bonds. The independent molecules are approximately related by the pseudo-symmetry relation: xB = −1/4 + yA, yB = 3/4 - xA and zB = 1/4 + zA. In the crystal, molecules are connected by N—H...N hydrogen bonds between the tetrazole groups, forming a pseudo-43 helix parallel to the c-axis direction. The crystal studied was a merohedral twin with a refined twin fraction value of 0.231 (2).