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A series of three 5,5′-substituted hydantoin derivatives (1−3) were synthesized, and their crystal structures were solved using single-crystal synchrotron/powder-crystal X-ray diffraction data with a detailed analysis of Hirshfeld surfaces and fingerprint plots facilitating a comparison of intermolecular interactions in building different supramolecular architectures. A comparison of supramolecular assembly in the compounds with that in similar 5,5′-substituted hydantoins in the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) has been presented. The crystal packing in compounds 1−3 containing complementary hydrogen bonding groups, i.e. the amino NH donors and carbonyl O acceptors, exhibits three types of supramolecular synthons. In the dipropyl substituted hydantoin (1), intermolecular N−H···O hydrogen bonds with only one carbonyl O atom acting as a double acceptor generate a one-dimensional C¹₁(4)C¹₁(4)[R²₂(8 …