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The design of a pharmaceutical cocrystal is based on the identification of specific hydrogen-bond donor and acceptor groups in active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) in order to choose a `complementary interacting' molecule that can act as an efficient coformer. 5-Fluorouracil (5FU) is a pyrimidine derivative with two N-H donors and C=O acceptors and shows a diversity of hydrogen-bonding motifs. Two 1:1 cocrystals of 5-fluorouracil (5FU), namely 5-fluorouracil-4-methylbenzoic acid (5FU-MBA), C4H3FN2O2·C8H8O2, (I), and 5-fluorouracil-3-nitrobenzoic acid (5FU-NBA), C4H3FN2O2·C7H5NO4, (II), have been prepared and characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. In (I), the MBA molecules form carboxylic acid dimers [ R22(8) homosynthon]. Similarly, the 5FU molecules form two types of base pair via a pair of N-H...O hydrogen bonds [ R22(8) homosynthon]. In (II), 5FU interacts with the carboxylic acid group of NBA via N-H...O and O-H...O hydrogen bonds, generating an R22(8) ring motif (heterosynthon). Furthermore, the 5FU molecules form base pairs [ R22(8) homosynthon] via N-H...O hydrogen bonds. Both of the crystal structures are stabilized by C-H...F interactions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The two centrosymmetric dinuclear copper paddle-wheel complexes tetrakis(μ-4-hydroxybenzoato-κ2 O: O′)bis[aquacopper(II)] dimethylformamide disolvate dihydrate, [Cu2(C7H5O3)4(H2O)2]·2C3H7NO·2H2O, (I), and tetrakis(μ-4-methoxybenzoato-κ2 O: O′)bis[(dimethylformamide-κ O)copper(II)], [Cu2(C8H7O3)4(C3H7NO)2], (II), crystallize with half of the dinuclear paddle-wheel cage unit in the asymmetric unit and, in addition, complex (I) has one dimethylformamide (DMF) and one water solvent molecule in the asymmetric unit. In both (I) and (II), two CuII ions are bridged by four syn, syn-η1:η1:μ carboxylate groups, showing a paddle-wheel cage-type structure with a square-pyramidal coordination geometry. The equatorial positions of (I) and (II) are occupied by the carboxylate groups of 4-hydroxy- and 4-methoxybenzoate ligands, and the axial positions are occupied by aqua and DMF ligands, respectively. The three-dimensional supramolecular metal-organic framework of (I) consists of three different R22(20) and an R44(36) ring motif formed via O-H...O and O W-H W...O hydrogen bonds. Complex (II) simply packs as molecular species. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the title compound, C4H6N4O·C7H5NO4, there are two types of base-pairing motifs, one involving a pair of N—H...N hydrogen bonds and the other involving a pair of N—H...O hydrogen bonds. These paired molecules are further linked by N—H...O hydrogen bonds to generate DADA and DDAA ( D = donor and A = acceptor) arrays leading to a supramolecular sheet. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Three salts, namely 2-amino-4,6-dimethylpyrimidin-1-ium thiobarbiturate trihydrate (I), 2-amino-4,6-dimethoxypyrimidin-1-ium thiobarbiturate dihydrate (II) and 2,4-diamino-5-(3′,4′,5′-trimethoxybenzyl)pyrimidin-1-ium thiobarbiturate (III), were synthesized and characterized by IR and X-ray diffraction techniques. The primary interaction between the acid and base happens via N-H...O hydrogen bonds in (II) and (III), and via water-mediated N-H...O W and O W-H W...S in (I). The water molecules present in compound (I) form a (H2O)12 water cluster via water-water interactions. In all three compounds (I)-(III), thiobarbiturate anions form self-complementary pairs with a robust R22(8) motif via a pair of N-H...O/N-H...S hydrogen bonds. They mimic the nucleobase base pairs by utilizing the same groups (thymine/uracil uses N3-H and C4=O8 groups during the formation of Watson-Crick and Hoogsteen base pairs with adenine). Compound (I) forms a water-mediated base pair through N-H...O W hydrogen bonds and forms an R42(12) motif. The formation of N-H...S hydrogen bonds, water-mediated base pairs and water-water interactions in these crystal systems offers scope for these systems to be considered as a model in the study of hydration of nucleobases and water-mediated nucleobase base pairs in macromolecules. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]