Jm. Cense et al., CRYSTAL AND MOLECULAR-STRUCTURE ANALYSIS OF FLUTAMIDE - BIFURCATED HELICOIDAL C-H ... O HYDROGEN-BONDS, Structural chemistry, 5(2), 1994, pp. 79-84
Crystal structure determination and semiempirical AM1 and PM3 calculat
ions were performed on flutamide {2-methyl-N[4 nitro-3-(trifluoromethy
l) phenyl] propamide}, a powerful nonsteroidal androgen antagonist. Th
e molecule is almost planar apart from CF3, NO2, and CH3 groups. The N
O2 plane makes an angle of 36.3(4)degrees with the least-square plane
of the phenyl ring. The molecules are intermolecularly linked by one N
-H ... O and one C-H ... O hydrogen bonds. A bifurcated helicoidal hyd
rogen bond network is formed by the intermolecular C-H ... O hydrogen
bond together with another intramolecular C-H ... O hydrogen bond. The
calculated structures are in good agreement with the crystallographic
conformations. AMI is more accurate for predicting the intramolecular
C-H ... O hydrogen bond while PM3 gives a better geometry for the cro
wded nitro group. AM1 and PM3 charges of benzenic hydrogens are used t
o predict the propensity of these atoms to form hydrogen bonds. The no
ncentrosymmetric space group of the crystal (Pna2(1)), the calculated
dipole moment (8.88 D), and the calculated angle between molecular dip
oles and the twofold axis (approximately 49-degrees) close to the opti
mal value (54.7-degrees) indicate that flutamide might be a possible c
andidate for nonlinear optical material.