New organophosphorus compounds containing nicotinamide: synthesis, structure and DFT calculations

Novel organophosphorus compounds, containing Nicotinamide, with formula C5H4NC(O)NHP(O)R2, R=Cl (1), OH (2), N(C2H5)2 (3), N(C3H7)2 (4), N(n-C4H9)2 (5), NHC3H5 (6), NHC5H9 (7), were synthesized and characterized by 1H, 13C, 31P, NMR, IR, spectroscopy and elemental analysis. Single crystal structures of 3 7 were determined by X-ray crystallography. 1HNMR spectra of compounds 2, 3, 6–8 demonstrated interesting long-range coupling constant, n J P,H (n = 5 7). Crystallographic data revealed that in both molecules 3 and 7, the phosphoryl and the carbonyl groups have anti-configurations and the phosphorus atoms in these structures have distorted tetrahedral configuration. All the hydrogen bonds and electrostatic interactions make a three dimensional polymeric network for both 3 and 7. Interestingly, two independent conformers were detected in the unit cell of compound 7. The two conformers of the title compound can be observed in a solid phase but only one compound defined in a solution. These two conformers are connected to each other by a short contact, N (amine)···H–C (pyridine) with 2.626 Å distance. The molecular geometry of 7 was calculated by DFT/B3LYP (6–31+G**) quantum chemical calculations. The computational optimized geometric parameters and vibrational frequencies showed a good agreement with the experimental results, considering reasonable variations arising from the differences between solid and gaseous phases. Theoretical calculations revealed that the more stable conformer of the title compound is conformer 1 with the energy of −1335.723996 a.u., which is about 1.17 kcal/mol lower than the energy of conformer 2.