Aminosilanes derived from 1H-benzimidazole-2(3H)-thione.

Two new molecular structures, namely 1,3-bis(trimethylsilyl)-1H-benzimidazole-2(3H)-thione, C13H22N2SSi2, (2), and 1-trimethylsilyl-1H-benzimidazole-2(3H)-thione, C10H14N2SSi, (3), are reported. Both systems were derived from 1H-benzimidazole-2(3H)-thione. Noncovalent C-H···π interactions between the centroid of the benzmidazole system and the SiMe3 groups form helicoidal arrangements in (2). Dimerization of (3) results in the formation of R2(2)(8) rings via N-H···S interactions, along with parallel π-π interactions between imidazole and benzene rings.

Introduction

1H-Benzimidazole-2(3H)-thione, (1) (see Scheme 1), is a planar mol­ecule with two substitutable <span class="Disease">acidic H atoms. The N atoms of this mol­ecule have demonstrated the ability to form Lewis acid–base coordination compounds. Under basic conditions, the corresponding salt of (1) has been shown to react with p-block elements (O’Sullivan & Wallis, 1972 ▸).

The 1H-benzimidazole-2(3H)-thione heterocycle has been found in compounds with biological activity, such as <span class="Chemical">progesterone agonists (Zhang et al., 2007 ▸). Anti­nematode activity was evaluated for {[(1H-benzimidazol-2-yl)thio]­acetyl}­piperazine (Mavrova et al., 2010 ▸), while 2-(alkyl­thio)­benzimidazole with a β-lactam ring pre­sented anti­bacterial and anti­fungal activities (Desai & Desai, 2006 ▸). Isomeric 2-(methylthio)­benzimidazole compounds were synthesized as acyclic analogues of the HIV-1 RT inhibitor ring system (Gardiner & Loyns, 1995 ▸). More recently, isoxazole–mer­capto­benzimid­azole hybrids have presented analgesic and anti-inflammatory activities (Shravankumar et al., 2013 ▸). Furthermore, a wide range of biological activities have been reported for the benzimid­azole fragment, such as anti­fungal, anti­bacterial, vasodilator, antispasmodic, anti-ulcer (Akkurt et al., 2012 ▸), anti­microbial (De Almeida et al., 2007 ▸), anti­histamine (Mor et al., 2004 ▸), neutropic (Bakhareva et al., 1996 ▸) and analgesic (Anandarajagopal et al., 2010 ▸). Additionally, alkyl­silyl-substituted benzimidazole has shown in vitro cytotoxicity, for example, 1-[3-(tri­methyl­silyl)propyl]benz­imid­azole inhibits carcinoma S180 tumour (Lukevics et al., 2001 ▸). In 2012, 1-{[dimethyl(phenyl)silyl]methyl}-3-(2-phenyl­ethyl)-1-benzimidazol-3-ium bromide monohydrate was synthesized and its crystal structure elucidated (Akkurt et al., 2012 ▸). Silylated compounds are stable at low temperatures and, in some cases, under atmospheric conditions. Amino­silanes are soluble in nonpolar solvents, while the presence of tri­methyl­silyl groups increases the volatility of the organic fragments, most of which can be distilled without decomposition and, sometimes, even crystallized (Ghose & Gilchrist, 1991 ▸). Alk­oxy­silanes, thio­silanes and amino­silanes are stable at low temperatures, while the last class become unstable under atmospheric conditions (Colvin, 1981 ▸).

We report here the crystal structures of two new tri­methyl­silyl-substituted derivatives of <span class="Chemical">1H-benzimidazole-2(3H)-thione, namely 1,3-bis­(tri­methyl­silyl)-1H-benzimid­azole-2(3H)-thione, (2), and 1-tri­methyl­silyl-1H-benzimid­azole-2(3H)-thione, (3).

Experimental

All reagents were purchased from Aldrich and were used as received. All solvents were dried before use. 1H NMR (300.13185 MHz) and <span class="Chemical">13C NMR (75.47564 MHz) analyses in CDCl3 were performed on a Bruker 300 MHz spectrometer, using TMS as the inter­nal reference. Chemical shifts (δ) are reported in p.p.m. IR spectra were recorded on a Perkin–Elmer FT–IR 1600 spectrophotometer in the 4000–400 cm−1 range. Elemental analyses were performed in a Thermofinniga Flash 112 instrument under standard conditions.

Synthesis and crystallization

Compound (2) was obtained by mixing 1H-benzimidazole-2(3H)-thione (0.5 g, 3.3 mmol) and chloro­tri­methyl­<span class="Chemical">silane (0.89 ml, 75.9 mg, 6.9 mmol) in tri­ethyl­amine (15 ml). The reaction was kept under constant stirring and reflux for 6 h. The resulting compound was a yellow liquid (yield 92%, 1.87 g) which solidified after 24 h. Crystals of (2) suitable for X-ray diffraction analysis were collected. MS: m/z (intensity, %): 294 (M +, 100), 206 (25), 150 (11); IR (KBr, νmax, cm−1): 1623 (C=N), 1514 and 1470 (N—C—S), 1181 (Si—N), 714 and 710 (Si—C); 1H NMR (C6D6/THF, 1:1): δ AA′BB′ 7.26 (m, H4, H7), 7.04 (m, H5, H6), 0.73 (s, HMe); 13C NMR: δ 182.3 (C2), 112.2 (C4, C7), 122.6 (C5, C6), 2.5 (CMe). Elemental analysis calculated for C13H22N2SSi2: C 53.01, H 7.53, N 9.51, S 10.89%; found: C 53.03, H 7.60, N 9.60, S 10.69%.

Compound (3) was obtained from the partial hydrolysis of (2); both (2) and (3) are readily hydrolysed under atmospheric conditions. This compound was not analysed by spectroscopic techniques. However, crystals of (3) suitable for X-ray diffraction analy<span class="Chemical">sis were obtained from a hexane solution and a single crystal immersed in oil was analysed.

Refinement

Crystal data, data collection and structure refinement details are summarized in Table 1 ▸. H atoms were included in geometrically calculated po<span class="Chemical">sitions, riding on the C or N atoms to which they were bonded. C—H distances were restrained to 0.93 (aromatic) or 0.96 Å (methyl) and the N—H bond length was restrained to 0.86 Å. H-atom displacement parameters were set at U iso(H) = 1.5U eq(C) for methyl H atoms and at 1.2U eq(C,N) otherwise.

Table 1

Experimental details

	(2)	(3)
Crystal data
Chemical formula	C13H22N2SSi2	C10H14N2SSi
M r	294.56	222.38
Crystal system, space group	Orthorhombic, P212121	Monoclinic, P21/c
Temperature (K)	293	293
a, b, c ()	10.0302(3), 10.6172(3), 16.2428(6)	9.8057(2), 15.8032(4), 15.8658(5)
, , ()	90, 90, 90	90, 93.859(1), 90
V (3)	1729.74(10)	2453.01(11)
Z	4	8
Radiation type	Mo K	Mo K
(mm1)	0.31	0.33
Crystal size (mm)	0.25 0.20 0.10 0.15 (radius)	0.20 0.20 0.15 0.15 (radius)
Data collection
Diffractometer	Nonius KappaCCD area-detector diffractometer	Nonius KappaCCD area-detector diffractometer
Absorption correction	Spherical (Dwiggins, 1975 ▸)	Spherical (Dwiggins, 1975 ▸)
T min, T max	0.861, 0.862	0.861, 0.862
No. of measured, independent and observed [I > 2(I)] reflections	15678, 3889, 2472	29355, 5554, 3199
R int	0.064	0.096
(sin /)max (1)	0.648	0.649
Refinement
R[F 2 > 2(F 2)], wR(F 2), S	0.048, 0.104, 1.01	0.049, 0.138, 1.00
No. of reflections	3889	5554
No. of parameters	164	259
H-atom treatment	H-atom parameters constrained	H-atom parameters constrained
max, min (e 3)	0.17, 0.20	0.21, 0.24
Absolute structure	Flack x parameter determined using 838 quotients, [(I +) (I )]/[(I +) + (I )] (Parsons et al., 2013 ▸)
Absolute structure parameter	0.01(7)

Computer programs: COLLECT (Nonius, 2000 ▸), DENZO and SCALEPACK (Otwinowski Minor, 1997 ▸), SHELXS97 (Sheldrick, 2008 ▸), SHELXL2014 (Sheldrick, 2015 ▸), and XPMA in ZORTEP (Zsolnai, 1997 ▸).

Results and discussion

Compound (2) crystallizes in the ortho­rhom­bic space group P212121. The average N1—Si1—Me10,11,12 angle is 109.0 (2)° and the average N1—<span class="Chemical">Si1—Me13,14,15 angle is 109.1 (2)°. The Si—N distances of 1.809 (3) and 1.803 (3) Å are slightly longer than those reported previously for 1,3-bis­(tri­methyl­silyl)imidazolidin-2-one [1.739 (7) Å] and 4-methyl-1,3-bis­(tri­methyl­silyl)imidazolidin-2-one [1.745 (3) Å] (Szalay et al., 2005 ▸), which might be caused by the difference in electronegativities of the O and S atoms.

Compound (3) crystallizes with two independent mol­ecules, A and B, in the asymmetric unit in the monoclinic space group P21/c. The average N1—Si1—Me20,21,22 angle is 108.49 (12)° and the average N11—<span class="Chemical">Si2—Me23,24,25 angle is 108.66 (12)°. The Si—N distances are 1.817 (2) and 1.804 (2) Å.

Overall, compounds (2) and (3) have very similar structures, which are shown in Figs. 1 ▸ and 2 ▸, respectively. Selected bond lengths and angles are listed in Tables 2 ▸ and 3 ▸, respectively. The average C—<span class="Chemical">Si bond length for both compounds is 1.847 (3) Å and the average C—Si—C angle is 109.5 (2)°, in agreement with sp 3-hybridization of the Si atoms. These values agree with those in similar structures reported previously (Wagler et al., 2010 ▸).

Figure 1

The mol­ecular structure of compound (2), showing the atom-numbering scheme. Displacement ellipsoids are drawn at the 30% probability level.

Figure 2

The mol­ecular structures of the two independent molecules of compound (3), showing the atom-numbering schemes. Displacement ellipsoids are drawn at the 30% probability level.

Table 2

Selected geometric parameters (, ) for (2)

Si1N1	1.809(3)	Si2C13	1.839(6)
Si1C11	1.842(5)	Si2C15	1.854(6)
Si1C12	1.842(5)	Si2C14	1.861(5)
Si1C10	1.847(5)	S1C2	1.669(4)
Si2N3	1.803(3)
N1Si1C11	109.0(2)	N3Si2C14	109.3(2)
N1Si1C12	109.53(19)	C13Si2C14	113.7(3)
C11Si1C12	113.9(3)	C15Si2C14	107.7(3)
N1Si1C10	108.4(2)	C2N1Si1	121.7(3)
C11Si1C10	109.4(3)	C8N1Si1	130.9(3)
C12Si1C10	106.4(3)	C2N3Si2	120.8(3)
N3Si2C13	109.4(2)	C9N3Si2	132.3(2)
N3Si2C15	108.5(2)	N1C2S1	125.1(3)
C13Si2C15	108.2(3)	N3C2S1	124.8(3)
C11Si1N1C2	70.3(4)	C14Si2N3C9	113.9(4)
C12Si1N1C2	55.0(4)	Si2N3C9C4	4.8(7)
C10Si1N1C2	170.7(3)	Si2N3C9C8	179.1(3)
C11Si1N1C8	113.2(4)	Si1N1C8C7	10.2(6)
C12Si1N1C8	121.5(4)	Si1N1C8C9	174.1(3)
C10Si1N1C8	5.8(4)	Si1N1C2N3	173.6(2)
C13Si2N3C2	59.4(4)	C8N1C2S1	175.3(3)
C15Si2N3C2	177.2(4)	Si1N1C2S1	7.5(5)
C14Si2N3C2	65.7(4)	Si2N3C2N1	177.2(2)
C13Si2N3C9	121.0(4)	C9N3C2S1	175.9(3)
C15Si2N3C9	3.2(4)	Si2N3C2S1	3.9(5)

Table 3

Selected geometric parameters (, ) for (3)

S1C2	1.676(3)	S2C12	1.675(2)
Si1N1	1.817(2)	Si2N11	1.804(2)
Si1C22	1.841(3)	Si2C24	1.827(3)
Si1C20	1.846(3)	Si2C23	1.830(4)
Si1C21	1.850(3)	Si2C25	1.841(3)
N1Si1C22	108.72(12)	N11Si2C24	111.21(15)
N1Si1C20	107.62(12)	N11Si2C23	105.51(15)
C22Si1C20	109.24(16)	C24Si2C23	113.3(2)
N1Si1C21	109.12(13)	N11Si2C25	109.27(13)
C22Si1C21	108.81(18)	C24Si2C25	106.95(19)
C20Si1C21	113.23(16)	C23Si2C25	110.6(2)
C2N1Si1	122.00(16)	C12N11Si2	123.12(16)
C8N1Si1	130.56(17)	C18N11Si2	128.88(17)
N3C2S1	125.48(19)	N13C12S2	125.02(19)
N1C2S1	126.65(18)	N11C12S2	127.12(18)
C22Si1N1C2	176.3(2)	C24Si2N11C12	56.7(3)
C20Si1N1C2	65.5(2)	C23Si2N11C12	66.5(2)
C21Si1N1C2	57.8(2)	C25Si2N11C12	174.5(2)
C22Si1N1C8	1.1(3)	C24Si2N11C18	133.4(3)
C20Si1N1C8	117.1(2)	C23Si2N11C18	103.4(3)
C21Si1N1C8	119.6(2)	C25Si2N11C18	15.6(3)
C9N3C2S1	179.14(18)	C19N13C12S2	179.11(18)
Si1N1C2N3	177.32(16)	Si2N11C12N13	171.28(16)
C8N1C2S1	178.90(19)	C18N11C12S2	179.38(19)
Si1N1C2S1	3.2(3)	Si2N11C12S2	8.8(3)
Si1N1C8C9	177.06(17)	Si2N11C18C17	8.5(5)
Si1N1C8C7	3.0(4)	Si2N11C18C19	171.09(18)

The C=S distances for compounds (2) and (3) range from 1.669 (4) to 1.675 (2) Å. The average N1,3—C2=S1 angle is 125.0 (3)° for (2) and the average N1,11—C2,12=S12 angle is 126.9 (18)° for (3). These angles agree with sp 2-hybridization of the C and S atoms which is typical of thio­urea groups (Wagler et al., 2010 ▸). The S atom of (3) has a slight displacement of 0.007 (1) Å from the benzimidazole mol­ecular plane, whereas in (2), the S atom is out of the plane by 0.155 (2) Å. This displacement could be caused by noncovalent intra­molecular inter­actions between the S-atom nucleus and both <span class="Disease">Si atoms, or between the methyl H atoms and the S atom. Compound (2) presents four noncovalent C—H⋯S inter­actions (Table 4 ▸), with C⋯S distances ranging from 2.77 to 2.96 Å and angles ranging from 122 to 125°, which amount to less than the sum of the van der Waals radii of S and H atoms (3.25 Å; Bondi, 1964 ▸).

Table 4

Hydrogen-bond geometry (, ) for (2)

DHA	DH	HA	D A	DHA
C11H11BS1	0.96	2.96	3.564(7)	122
C12H12CS1	0.96	2.77	3.415(5)	125
C13H13BS1	0.96	2.79	3.423(7)	125
C14H14CS1	0.96	2.86	3.480(5)	123

Another noncovalent intra­molecular inter­action (Table 5 ▸) was observed in (3), viz. C21—H21⋯S1, with a C⋯S distance of 2.83 Å and an angle of 126°, similar to that observed in (2).

Table 5

Hydrogen-bond geometry (, ) for (3)

DHA	DH	HA	D A	DHA
N3H3S2i	0.86	2.52	3.374(2)	170
N13H13S1i	0.86	2.45	3.282(2)	164
C21H21BS1	0.96	2.83	3.480(4)	126

Symmetry code: (i) .

Comparing the structures of (2) and (3), it becomes obvious that the fused rings in (2) are not completely flat. Specifically, the thio­urea unit composed of <span class="Disease">atoms N1/C2/N3/S1 is offset from the mol­ecular plane defined by the benzene ring. This is a consequence of the intra­molecular noncovalent C—H⋯S inter­actions present in the system.

Fig. 3 ▸(a) shows the spiral arrangement of (2), which forms a linking inter­action between mol­ecules through the imidazole ring (C10—H10A⋯Cg1 = 2.94 Å; Cg1 is the centroid of the <span class="Chemical">imidazole ring) and the benzene ring [C10—H10B⋯Cg2 = 2.83 Å; Cg2 is the centroid of the benzene ring at (x − , −y + , −z)]. These inter­actions form a helicoidal repeat unit of 10.03 Å, which extends along the crystallographic a axis. Fig. 3 ▸(b) presents the helix overlap of this system. A third inter­action, viz. C13—H13⋯π(x + , −y + , −z), has a C⋯π distance of 2.77 Å, which further supports the helicoidal arrangement.

Figure 3

(a) The spiral arrangement for (2) and (b) the overlap of the helix along the direction of the a axis.

Mol­ecules A and B of (3) are auto-assembled by N—H⋯S inter­actions (N3—H3⋯S2i = 2.52 Å and N13—H13⋯S1i = 2.45 Å; see Table 5 ▸ for symmetry code). This arrangement forms a cyclic system with an (8) hydrogen-bonding pattern (Bernstein et al., 1995 ▸) (Fig. 4 ▸). Furthermore, π–π inter­actions between the <span class="Chemical">imidazole and benzene rings are observed in the dimerization of the compound and extend in the ab plane (Fig. 4 ▸). The distance between the ring centroids in these inter­actions is 3.64 Å (symmetry code: −x + 1, −y + 1, −z). There is an additional inter­molecular C20—H20B⋯π(imidazole ring) inter­action of 3.03 Å (symmetry code: −x + 1, y + , −z + ) which strengthens the crystalline arrange­ment of (3).

Figure 4

(a) The crystal packing diagram of (3) along the direction of the ab plane. (b) A detailed view of the formation of the (8) hydrogen-bonding motif and the π–π stacking inter­actions. [Where is the origin in part (a)?]

As can be seen, the structures of (2) and (3) have similar parameters around the <span class="Chemical">silyl–amine bond, but while (3) is a dimer formed by classical hydrogen bonding, the structure of (2) is a helix supported by nonclassical interactions.

Crystal structure: contains datablock(s) 2, 3, global. DOI: 10.1107/S2053229615014503/fn3201sup1.cif

Structure factors: contains datablock(s) 2. DOI: 10.1107/S2053229615014503/fn32012sup2.hkl

Structure factors: contains datablock(s) 3. DOI: 10.1107/S2053229615014503/fn32013sup3.hkl

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Supporting information file. DOI: 10.1107/S2053229615014503/fn32012sup4.cml

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Supporting information file. DOI: 10.1107/S2053229615014503/fn32013sup5.cml

CCDC references: 1416509, 1416508