1-Ethyl 2-methyl 3,4-bis-(acet-yloxy)pyrrolidine-1,2-di-carboxyl-ate: crystal structure, Hirshfeld surface analysis and computational chemistry

Crystal structure of 2-tert-butyl 1-methyl 5-{4-[(methoxycarbonyl)amino]phenyl}-2,5-dihydro-1H-pyrrole-1,2-dicarboxylate, C19H24N2O6

C19H24N2O6, monoclinic, P21 (no. 4), a = 8.3611(7) Å, b = 9.0521(8) Å, c = 13.8988(8) Å, β = 106.710(5)°, V = 1007.52(14) Å3, Z = 2, R gt(F) = 0.0428, wR ref(F 2) = 0.1174, T = 293(2) K.

Ethyl 3,4-bis-(acet-yloxy)-2-(4-meth-oxy-phen-yl)pyrrol-idine-1-carboxyl-ate

The title pyrrolidine compound, C18H23NO7, is a tetra-substituted species in which the five-membered ring has a twisted conformation with the twist occurring in the C-C bond bearing the adjacent acet-yloxy substituents; the Cm-Ca-Ca-Cp torsion angle is -40.76 (18)° [m = methyl-ene, a = acet-yloxy and p = phen-yl]. The N atom, which is sp 2-hybridized [sum of bond angles = 359.4°], bears an ethyl-carboxyl-ate substitutent and is connected to a methyl-ene-C atom on one side and a carbon atom bearing a 4-meth-oxy-phenyl group on the other side. Minor disorder is noted in the ethyl-carboxyl-ate substituent as well as in one of the acet-yloxy groups; the major components of the disorder have site occupancies of 0.729 (9) and 0.62 (3), respectively. The most notable feature of the mol-ecular packing is the formation of helical, supra-molecular chains aligned along the b-axis direction whereby the carbonyl-O atom not involved in a disordered residue accepts C-H⋯O inter-actions from methyl-ene-H and two-C atom separated methine-H atoms to form a six-membered {⋯HCCCH⋯O} synthon.

Crystal structure of tert-butyl 2-(hydroxymethyl)-5-{4-[(methoxycarbonyl)amino]phenyl}-2,5-dihydro-1H-pyrrole-1-carboxylate, C18H24N2O5

C18H24N2O5, monoclinic, P21/c (no. 14), a = 11.4784(7) Å, b = 9.0180(8) Å, c = 17.9483(17) Å, β = 92.823(7)°, V = 1855.6(3) Å3, Z = 4, R gt(F) = 0.0505, wR ref(F 2) = 0.1611, T = 293 K.

4-Nitro-benzyl 3,4-bis-(acet-yloxy)-2-(4-meth-oxy-phen-yl)pyrrolidine-1-carboxyl-ate: crystal structure, Hirshfeld surface analysis and computational chemistry

The title compound, C23H24N2O9, is a tetra-substituted pyrrolidine derivative with a twisted conformation, with the twist evident in the C-C bond bearing the adjacent acet-yloxy substituents. These are flanked on one side by a C-bound 4-meth-oxy-phen-yl group and on the other by a methyl-ene group. The almost sp 2-N atom [sum of angles = 357°] bears a 4-nitro-benzyl-oxycarbonyl substituent. In the crystal, ring-methyl-ene-C-H⋯O(acet-yloxy-carbon-yl) and methyl-ene-C-H⋯O(carbon-yl) inter-actions lead to supra-molecular layers lying parallel to (01); the layers stack without directional inter-actions between them. The analysis of the calculated Hirshfeld surfaces indicates the combined importance of H⋯H (42.3%), H⋯O/O⋯H (37.3%) and H⋯C/C⋯H (14.9%) surface contacts. Further, the inter-action energies, largely dominated by the dispersive term, point to the stabilizing influence of H⋯H and O⋯O contacts in the inter-layer region.