organic compounds
Two basic heterocyclic imino structures display a planar backbone with similar features, but differ in the heterocyclic atoms located in the five-membered rings, i.e. N and S. In the pyrrole, centrosymmetric iminopyrrole dimers are assembled by means of two inverted N—HN hydrogen bonds and two inverted C—Hπ interactions. In the thiophene, however, molecules are linked by nonclassical C—HN hydrogen bonds in which the molecules play the roles of both hydrogen-bond donors and acceptors, resulting in one-dimensional supramolecular chains.