The moisture-sensitive title compounds were obtained in good yields by treating the corresponding silver salts AgN(SO2R)2 with the thiocarbamoyl chloride Me2NC(S)Cl in acetonitrile. In the NMR solution spectra of the novel thioureas, as recorded at room temperature for 13C and up to 120 °C for 1H, the Me2N group invariably gives rise to two distinct resonances, reflecting unusually high barriers to rotation about the C(S)-NMe2 bond. The crystal structure of the ditosyl compound (triclinic, space group P1̅, X-ray diffraction at -130 °C) contains two independent molecules A and B, in which the bond lengths and angles are nearly identical, whereas the conformations exhibit pronounced discrepancies. The amide N and thiocarbonyl C atoms have trigonal-planar environments, but the S -N -S planes are strikingly rotated into approximately perpendicular orientations relative to the planar C2N-C(S)-N moieties. Other remarkable features of the molecular structures are the exceedingly long C(S)-NS2 bonds [mean: 145.4(3) pm] and the concomitantly short C -S and C(S)-NC2 bonds [mean values: 164.8(2), 132.6(3) pm]. The packing is governed by a three-dimensional system of weak hydrogen bonds and may be viewed as a self-clathrate, in which (B)2 dimers constructed from C-H···S=C interactions are inserted as guest species into parallel tunnels between (A)∞ tapes based upon short C-H···O=S contacts.
The four title compounds, Me2NH2 +·(4-Cl/Br/I/Me-C6H4-SO2)2N-, were obtained by metathesis of dimethylammonium chloride with the corresponding silver di(arenesulfonyl)amides. The products crystallize isotypically in the monoclinic space group Cc (Z = 4, Z´ = 1). In each structure, the ionic entities associate into hydrogen-bonded chains, which propagate along the c axis of the crystals and consist of alternating cations and anions held together by charge-assisted N+-H· · ·N− and N+- H(· · ·O)2 hydrogen bonds. In the three structures containing 4-halobenzenesulfonyl groups, each hydrogen-bonded chain is linked to four neighboring chains by pairs of C-Cl/Br/I· · ·O halogen bonds, which at first sight seem to be the causative factor in the formation of catemeric head-to-tail arrays of anions propagating along the ab face diagonals. On suppressing these halogen bonds by means of halogen-methyl exchange, all essential features of the packing architecture, including the anion headto- tail arrays, are precisely maintained. It may be thus inferred that the halogen bonds occurring in the first three compounds are supportive incidentals, but do not play any structure-determining role.