Studying the Role of CO···CO,
CO···N–O, and N–O···N–O
Dipole–Dipole Interactions in the Crystal Packing of 4‑Nitrobenzoic
Acid and 3,3′-Dinitrobenzophenone Polymorphs: An Experimental
Charge Density Study
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Abstract
An experimental charge density study
of 4-nitrobenzoic acid and
3,3′-dinitrobenzophenone polymorphs has been performed to study
the role played by various intermolecular interactions in the crystal
packing. The study highlights the importance of dipole–dipole
interactions analyzed with the help of Bader’s quantum theory
of atoms in molecules (QTAIM), low-reduced density gradient (RDG)
based topological descriptors of electron density and computations.
The molecular pairs held by antiparallel CO···CO,
CO···N–O, and N–O···N–O
type dipole–dipole interactions were found to contribute significantly
toward stability especially in the case of 3,3′-dinitrobenzophenone,
Form <b>II</b>. The low-RDG based descriptors were used for
understanding the nature of these dipole–dipole interactions,
which indicates the involvement of multiple atoms in stabilizing many
of these interactions. The significant contributions from the O···C,
O···O, and O···N contacts arising from
these dipole–dipole interactions in crystal packing are also
revealed from the Hirshfeld surface analysis of these crystals