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.
Three structures of the form bis(imidazolidine-2-thione)gold(I) disulfonylamide [disulfonylamide = benzene-1,2-di(sulfonyl)amide (1), di(4-chlorobenzenesulfonyl)amide (2), di(4-iodobenzenesulfonyl) amide (3)] were determined. Compound 3 crystallizes with four independent formula units. The cations in 1 and 3 show an antiperiplanar conformation about the S···S axis, whereas the corresponding torsion angle in 2 is 72°. The packing in 1 consists of linked ribbons in which the NH groups of neighbouring cations are bridged by O-S-O groups of the anions. Compound 2 exhibits a complex layer structure in which several multi-centre hydrogen bonds are observed. The structural subunits of compound 3 involve an alternating anion-cation chain for two of the cations and inversionsymmetric anion-cation dimers for the other two cations. Short C-H···Au contacts (shortest H···Au 2.63 Å in 2) contribute to the packing of compounds 2 and 3.