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In the title complex, [Cu(C15H19N2)2] or [Cu(L2)] (HL is 3,3′,4,4′,5,5′-hexamethylpyrromethene), the CuII atom is coordinated by four N atoms [Cu—N 1.939 (2)–1.976 (2) Å] from two L ligands in a distorted tetrahedral geometry. The mean planes of the CuN2C3 metallocyclic rings form a dihedral angle of 72.73 (6)°. In the L ligands, the pyrrole rings are inclined to each other at dihedral angles of 3.03 (7) and 9.83 (7)°. The crystal packing exhibits weak intermolecular C—Hπ interactions, which form chains in [100].
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The dirhodium complex, [Rh2(C18H15P)4(CO)2]·2(CH3)2CO, has crystallographic twofold symmetry and the Rh—Rh distance is 2.6266 (8) Å. The four atoms proximate to each Rh atom [Rh—P = 2.3222 (7) and 2.3283 (8) Å, and Rh—C = 1.961 (3) and 2.045 (3) Å] form a distorted tetrahedron with large deviations from the putative tetrahedral angles [r.m.s. deviation = 23 (1)°]. The six angles more closely approximate those of a trigonal bipyramid [r.m.s. deviation = 14 (1)°] with one missing equatorial ligand. The two bridging carbonyl ligands are much more linearly coordinated to one Rh [Rh—CO = 151.0 (2)°] than to the other [127.0 (2)°], and the two Rh2CO planes form a dihedral angle of 45.43 (5)°. The two acetone solvent molecules are disordered, and their estimated scattering contribution was subtracted from the observed diffraction data using the SQUEEZE routine in PLATON [Spek (2009). Acta Cryst. D65, 148–155].
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The title compound, C12H14O3, is a natural product derived from the medium-sized hawthorn Crataegus persimilis ('prunifolia'). The mean plane of the butene moiety is twisted by 13.27 (7)° with respect to the that of the dioxobenzaldehyde moiety. There is an intramolecular hydrogen bond between the hydroxyl group and the carbonyl O atom.
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The title compound, C34H30N4O2, lies on an inversion center and consists of two 3-substituted-1H-indole units linked by a 1,2-dimethylenehydrazine bridge. It is one of numerous examples in which two aromatic ring systems are joined by this 4-atom bridge. The geometry of the centrosymmetric bridge is: C(arom)—C = 1.444 (3), C=N = 1.284 (3), N—N = 1.414 (4) Å, C(arom)—C=N = 122.6 (2) and C=N—N = 111.9 (2)°. The nine non-H atoms of the indole unit lie in a plane (δr.m.s. = 0.0089 Å) which is twisted 6.0 (2)° with respect to the hydrazine bridge plane. The benzyloxymethyl substituents do not lie in the plane of the rest of the molecule and are in a folded rather than an extended conformation. This is described by the three torsion angles in the middle of the C=N—C—O—CBz group, viz. 98.5 (3), −62.1 (3), and −66.3 (2)°.
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The absolute configuration of 3-benzoyl-4-hydroxy-6,6-dimethyl-1,5,7-tris(3-methylbut-2-enyl)bicyclo[3.3.1]non-3-ene-2,9-dione, C33H42O4, isolated from Hypericum hypericoides, has been determined. The previous study [Xiao et al. (2007). J. Nat. Prod. 70, 1779–1782] gave only the established relative configuration. The three stereogenic centers are now established as 1R, 5R and 7S on the basis of the refinement of the Flack absolute structure parameter against Cu Kα data and correspond to a specific rotation of [α]D20 = +66°. The enol–hydroxy group forms an intramolecular O—HO hydrogen bond to close an S(6) ring.
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The title compound, C32H40N2O4, is a 1,10-diaza-18-crown-6 cryptand with an o-terphenyl bridge. In the polyether ring, two adjacent –CH2– groups are disordered with very nearly equal populations of two conformers. The ordered bond lengths are normal, with average C—C = 1.511 (3) Å, C—O = 1.421 (3) Å, and C—N = 1.466 (4) Å. The r.m.s. deviations of the three rings of the terphenyl bridge vary from 0.007 to 0.009 Å and the two rings ortho to one another are twisted by 50.75 (5) and 47.76 (4)° with respect to the third ring. The NN distance is 5.408 (1) Å.