1-(Anthracen-1-yl)pyrrolidine-2,5-dione

Abstract

In the mol-ecular structure of title compound, C(18)H(13)NO(2), the succinimide ring is orientated away from the plane of the anthracene moiety by 71.94 (4)°. The crystal structure features three different types of inter-molecular inter-actions, viz. C-H⋯O, C-H⋯π and π-π bonds. Mol-ecules along the b axis stack on each other as a result of π-π inter-actions which have a centroid-centroid distance of 3.6780 (15) Å, while C-H⋯π inter-actions are present between neigbouring stacks. Also, acting between the stacks are the C-H⋯O inter-actions between the aromatic H atoms of the anthracene and the O atoms of the succinimide.

Fig. 1.

The molecular structure of the title compound, showing the atomic numbering scheme. Displacement ellipsoids are drawn at the 50% probability level. H atoms are presented as small spheres of arbitrary radius.

Fig. 2.

C–H···O, C–H···π and π–π interactions in the structure of the title compound. The C–H···π and π–π interactions are respectively indicated by dollar ($) or hash (#) symbols.