Garreth L. Morgans

2-{[(4-Methylphenyl)sulfonyl]amino}phenyl 4-methylbenzenesulfonate.

The title compound, C(20)H(19)NO(5)S(2), crystallizes as an almost 2:1 mixture of two molecular orientations (described as Orient-A and Orient-B). The consequences of these two orientations is the formation of three types of N-H...O hydrogen-bonded dimers in which the (Orient-A + Orient-A) dimers are likely to be the most stable, while the mixed (Orient-A + Orient-B) dimers are more frequent. Extra interactions in the form of C-H...O and C-H...pi interactions act to further stabilize these dimers and probably allow the less energetically favourable (Orient-A + Orient-B) and (Orient-B + Orient-B) hydrogen-bonded dimers to exist by preventing their conversion to (Orient-A + Orient-A)-only hydrogen-bonded dimers during the crystal-growth process.

(2E)-1-Phenyl-2-[1-(2-phenyl­prop-2-en-1-yl)pyrrolidin-2-yl­idene]ethanone

The title compound, C21H21NO, is a vinylogous amide (enaminone) produced by reaction of 1-(2-phenylprop-2-en-1-yl)pyrrolidine-2-thione with phenacyl bromide. In the molecule, the phenyl rings are twisted from the mean plane of the pyrrolidine ring by 11.2 (1) and 67.3 (1)°. In the crystal, weak C—H⋯O hydrogen bonds link the molecules related by translation along the b axis into chains.