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Acta Crystallogr E Crystallogr Commun. 2016 May 27;72:868-71. doi: 10.1107/S2056989016008446. eCollection 2016 Jun 01.

Crystal structure of 16-ferrocenylmethyl-3β-hydroxy-estra-1,3,5(10)-trien-17-one: a potential chemotherapeutic drug.

Acta crystallographica. Section E, Crystallographic communications

José A Carmona-Negrón, Mariola M Flores-Rivera, Zaibeth Díaz-Reyes, Curtis E Moore, Arnold L Rheigold, Enrique Meléndez

Affiliations

  1. University of Puerto Rico, Department of Chemistry, PO Box 9019, Mayaguez, PR 00681, Puerto Rico.
  2. University of Puerto Rico, Department of Chemical Engineering, PO Box 9000, Mayaguez, PR 00681, Puerto Rico.
  3. University of California-San Diego, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Urey Hall 5128, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0358, USA.

PMID: 27308062 PMCID: PMC4908549 DOI: 10.1107/S2056989016008446

Abstract

A new ferrocene complex, 16-ferrocenylmethyl-3β-hy-droxy-estra-1,3,5(10)-trien-17-one dimethyl sulfoxide monosolvate, [Fe(C5H5)(C24H27O2)]·C2H6OS, has been synthesized and structurally characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction techniques. The mol-ecule crystallizes in the space group P21 with one mol-ecule of dimethyl sulfoxide. A hydrogen bond links the phenol group and the dimethyl sulfoxide O atom, with an O⋯O distance of 2.655 (5) Å. The ferrocene group is positioned in the β face of the estrone moiety, with an O-C-C-C torsion angle of 44.1 (5)°, and the carbonyl bond length of the hormone moiety is 1.216 (5) Å, typical of a C=O double bond. The average Fe-C bond length of the substituted Cp ring [Fe-C(Cp*)] is similar to that of the unsubstituted one [Fe-C(Cp)], i.e. 2.048 (3) versus 2.040 (12) Å. The structure of the complex is compared with those of estrone and eth-oxy-methyl-estrone.

Keywords: anti­cancer compound; crystal structure; ferrocene; medicinal chemistry

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