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Crystal growth of 2-(3,4,5-triphenylphenyl)acetic acid (1) from acetonitrile yields a monosolvate, C26H2O2·CH3CN, of the space group P1. In the crystal, the title molecule adopts a conformation in which the three phenyl rings are arranged in a paddlewheel-like fashion around the central arene ring and the carboxyl residue is oriented nearly perpendicular to the plane of this benzene ring. Inversion-symmetric dimers of O-H...O-bonded molecules of 1 represent the basic supramolecular entities of the crystal structure. These dimeric molecular units are further linked by C-H...O-C bonds to form one-dimensional supramolecular aggregates running along the crystallographic [111] direction. Weak Cary1-H...N interactions occur between the molecules of 1 and acetonitrile. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

New phenylacetic acid derivatives with potentially valuable biological activities and the ability to act as starting materials for various functionalizations have been prepared by a multi-step synthesis. Starting from 2,6-dibromo-4-methylaniline, the synthetic route involves the construction of the basic aromatic structure (3,4,5-triphenyltoluene) (two steps), followed by its conversion into 2-[(3,4,5-triphenyl)phenyl]acetic acid and derivatives (up to five steps). Based on this multi-step synthesis, five compounds not previously reported in the literature were synthesized; the literature-known 3,4,5-triphenyltoluene was synthesized for the first time in the manner described. This synthesis is applicable for the preparation of numerous new representatives of this class of compounds. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

New representatives of 2,4,7‐trisubstituted 9,9‐dialkyl‐9H‐fluorenes were prepared and used for crystallographic investigations as well as initial binding studies towards metal ions and carbohydrates. The binding studies, which included 1H NMR spectroscopic titrations and fluorescence measurements, demonstrated the ability of the tested fluorene‐based compounds to act as complexing agents for ionic and neutral substrates. Depending on the nature of the subunits of the fluorene derivatives, "turn on" or "turn off" fluorescent chemosensors can be developed. Compounds composed of 4,6‐dimethylpyridin‐2‐yl‐aminomethyl moieties have the potential to be used as sensitive "turn‐on" chemosensors for some metal ions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The title compound, C 20 H 18 O 3 , crystallizes in the space group P 2 1 / c with one mol-ecule in the asymmetric unit of the cell. The fluorene skeleton is nearly planar and the crystal structure is composed of mol-ecular layers extending parallel to the (302) plane. Within a layer, one formyl oxygen atom participates in the formation of a C arene -H⋯O bond, which is responsible for the formation of an inversion symmetric supra-molecular motif of graph set R 2 2 (10). A second oxygen atom is involved in an intra-molecular C arene -H⋯O hydrogen bond and is further connected with a formyl hydrogen atom of an adjacent mol-ecule. A Hirshfeld surface analysis indicated that the most important contributions to the overall surface are from H⋯H (46.9%), O⋯H (27.9%) and C⋯H (17.8%) inter-actions., (© Seidel et al. 2021.)