Conformation of azaphosphorinane ring. Crystal structures of 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-4,4-diphenyl-1,4-azaphosphorinanium perchlorate and 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-4-oxo-4-phenyl-1,4-azaphosphorinan-1-oxyl (stable nitroxy radical)
Crystal structures of 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-4,4-diphenyl-1,4-azaphosphorinanium perchlorate (I) and 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-4-oxo-4-phenyl-1,4-azaphosphorinan-1-oxyl (II) were determined. Compound I crystallizes in the monoclinic space group C2/c with unit cell dimensions a = 18.2967(7), b = 10.9413(6), c = 20.8714(13) Å, β = 90.79(1)° (at 115 K), and II crystallizes in the orthorhombic space group Pn21a with a = 8.076(1), b = 10.139(1), c = 17.894(1) Å. Intensity data were measured on a diffractometer at 115 K for I and at the room temperature for II. The structures were solved by a combination of heavy-atom and direct methods and refined to R = 0.036 (3968 reflections) for I and 0.039 (1451 reflections) for II.The azaphosphorinane ring adopts a chair conformation in both molecules, being flattened in the P part in I and in the N part in II. In molecule I the equatorial phenyl group is nearly parallel to the approximate plane of symmetry of the molecule, and the axial phenyl group is perpendicular to that plane. In molecule II the P=O bond is axial and the phenyl group is equatorial. The CN(O)C group is not planar. The N—O bond makes an angle of 18.0(3)° with the CNC plane. The CNC angle of 129.3(3)° is larger than that found in nitroxypiperidine analogues.