Structural, Hirshfeld and DFT studies of conjugated D-p-A carbazole chalcone crystal

Abstract

A new conjugated carbazole chalcone compound, (E)-3-[4-(9,9a-dihydro-8aH-carbazol-9-yl)phenyl]-1-(4-nitrophenyl)prop-2-en-1-one (CPNC), C27H18N2O3, was synthesized using a Claisen-Schmidt condensation reaction. CPNC crystallizes in the monoclinic non-centrosymmetric space group Cc and adopts an s-cis conformation with respect to the ethylenic double bonds (C=O and C=C). The crystal packing features C-H O and C-H p interactions whose percentage contribution was quantified by Hirshfeld surface analysis. Quantum chemistry calculations including geometrical optimization and molecular electrostatic potential (MEP) were analysed by density functional theory (DFT) with a B3LYP/6-311 14;G++(d,p) basis set.