Treatment of substituted benzyl alcohols with tosyl chloride resulted in the formation of the corresponding chlorides, not the usual tosylates. A series of experiments demonstrated that it was possible to predict whether chlorination or tosylation would occur for substituted benzyl alcohols and pyridine methanols. Treatment of electron withdrawing group-substituted benzyl alcohols with tosyl ch...

In the title compound, C(29)H(26)N(2)O(3)S, the central imidazolidine ring adopts an envelope conformation with the N atom bearing the benzyl ring at the flap. The S atom has distorted tetra-hedral geometry. The benzyl and tosyl rings are oriented at a dihedral angle of 52.1 (1)°. The phenyl rings connected to the imidazolidine ring form a dihedral angle of 28.7 (1)°.

In the title mol-ecule, C(22)H(19)NOS(2), the piperidine ring adopts an envelope conformation with the benzyl substituent in an equatorial position. Each of the olefinic double bonds has an E configuration. The dihedral angle between the two thio-phene rings is 1.55 (18)°. The thio-phene rings form angles of 72.21 (14) and 73.43 (14)° with the phenyl ring. Both thio-phene rings are disordered o...

In the title salt, C(23)H(23)N(2)O(+)·PF(6) (-), the PF(6) (-) anion is highly disordered (occupancy ratios of 0.35:0.35:0.3, 0.7:0.15:0.15, 0.7:0.3 and 0.35:0.35:0.15:0.15) with the four F atoms in the equatorial plane rotating about the axial F-P-F bond. The mean plane of the imidazole ring makes dihedral angles of 82.44 (17) and 14.39 (16)°, respectively, with the mean planes of the benzene ...

The asymmetric unit of the title compound, C(21)H(17)NO(2), contains two crystallographically independent mol-ecules of similar geometry. The indole ring systems form dihedral angles of 8.30 (5) and 9.58 (5)° with the attached phenyl rings, and 56.96 (5) and 57.68 (5)° with the aromatic rings of the respective benzyl groups. The mol-ecular conformations are stabilized by intra-molecular C-H⋯O h...