Crystal structure of trans-N,N '-bis(3,5-di-tert-butyl-2-hydroxyphenyl)oxamide methanol monosolvate

The here crystallized oxamide was previously characterized as an unsolvated species [Jimenez-Perez et al. (2000). J. Organomet. Chem. 614-615, 283-293], and is now reported with methanol as a solvent of crystallization, C30H44N2O4 center dot-CH3OH, in a different space group. The introduction of the solvent influences neither the molecular symmetry of the oxamide, which remains centrosymmetric, nor the molecular conformation. However, the unsolvated molecule crystallized as an ordered system, while many parts of the solvated crystal are disordered. The hydroxy group in the oxamide is disordered over two chemically equivalent positions, with occupancies 0.696 (4): 0.304 (4); one tert-butyl group is disordered by rotation about the C-C bond, and was modelled with three sites for each methyl group, each one with occupancy 1/3. Finally, the methanol solvent, which lies on a twofold axis, is disordered by symmetry. The disorder affecting hydroxy groups and the solvent of crystallization allows the formation of numerous supramolecular motifs using four hydrogen bonds, with N-H and O-H groups as donors and the oxamide and methanol molecule as acceptors.