The crystal and molecular structure of chlorpropamide

Chlorpropamide, $C_{10}H_{13}N_{2}O_{3}SCI$, forms orthofombic crystals of space group $P_{2}_{ 1}2_{1}2_{1}$ with a 9.066 $\pm$ 0.004, b = 5.218 $\pm$ 0.003, c = 26, 604 $\pm$, 0.008 $\AA$, and four molecules per cell. Three dimensional photographic data were collected with Mo-K$\alpha$ radiation. The structure was determined using Patterson, Fourier and Difference syntheses methods and refined by the block-diagonal least-squares methods with anisotropic thermal parameters for all nonhydrogen atoms and isotropic thermal parameters for all hydrogen atomes. The final R value was 0.10 for the 1823 observed independent reflections. The dihedral angle between the planes through the benzene ring and the urea goup is 99$^{\circ}$. The conformational angle formed by the projection of the S-C(1) with that of N(1)-C(7) when the projection is taken along the S-N(1) bond is 76$^{\circ}$. The molecule appears to form with neighbouring molecules two hydrogen bonds, N(1)..H...O(3) and N(2)-H...0(2) of lengths 2.774 and 2.954$\AA$ respectively related by screw diads parallel to the a axis. Adjacent molecules parallel to b and c axis are bound together by van der Wasls forces.