The chiral title compound, C 8 H 15 NO 5 S, was obtained by cyclization of (R)-1-(tert-butoxycarbonylamino)-2-propanol with thionyl chloride and subsequent oxidation with sodium metaperiodate/ruthenium(IV) oxide. It crystallizes with two independent molecules in the asymmetric unit. In the crystal, C-HÁ Á ÁO interactions link the molecules into a three-dimensional network.
Structure descriptionCyclic sulfamidates are valuable reactive intermediates, because ring-opening reactions proceed with total inversion at the stereogenic centre (Melé ndez & Lubell, 2003). The title compound represents such a building block derived from (R)-1-amino-2-propanol useful for the preparation of substituted -phenylethylamines, an important class of pharmacologically active compounds (Hebeisen et al., 2011). The configuration of the enantiomer has been assigned by reference to an unchanging chiral centre in the synthetic procedure and confirmed by anomalous-dispersion effects in diffraction measurements on the crystal: the Flack parameter was refined to 0.02 (2).The title compound crystallizes with two independent molecules in the asymmetric unit. The five-membered rings adopt (O)C-envelope conformations, denoting the flap atoms, C1 and C6, are adjacent to the oxygen atoms. The methyl groups occupy equatorial positions (Fig. 1). The bonding geometries at the N atoms are close to planar, as the sums of the angles at N1 and N2 are 358.9 and 358.8 , respectively, and the N atoms lie only 0.092 and 0.094 Å out of the planes of the atoms to which they are bonded, as expected for an N-acyl fragment. In the crystal, C-HÁ Á ÁO interactions (Table 1) are observed. The apolar tert-butyl groups and the polar sulfamidate rings are alternately arranged in layers parallel to the bc-plane (Fig. 2).