Synthesis, spectroscopic and structural characterisation of two p-nitrobenzamide compounds: experimental and DFT study

Abstract

The title molecules, N-(1,5-dimethyl-3-oxo-2-phenyl-1H-3-(2H)-pyrazolyl)4-nitrobenzamide (C18H16N4O4 center dot H2O) (I) and 2,2-dimethyl-3-(4-nitrobenzoyl)-5-(phenylamino)-2,3-dihydro-1,3,4-thiyadiazole (C17H16N4O3S) (II), were prepared and characterised by H-1 NMR, C-13 NMR, infrared spectroscopy (IR) and structural X-ray diffraction (XRD) techniques. The molecular geometries, vibrational frequencies of the title compounds in the ground state have been calculated by using the density functional theory (DFT) method with 6-31G(d) basis set, and compared with the experimental data. The calculated results showed that the optimised geometries from the DFT method agree with the X-ray structures well for both compounds. Theoretical calculations of harmonic vibration frequencies are in good agreement with experimental results. To determine conformational flexibility, the molecular energy profiles of the title compounds were obtained. Besides, molecular electrostatic potential (MEP), frontier molecular orbitals (FMO) analysis and thermodynamic properties of the title compounds were investigated by theoretical calculations.