| pubmed-article:21202580 | pubmed:abstractText | The title compound, C(16)H(13)IO(2)S, was prepared by the oxidation of 2-(4-iodo-phen-yl)-5-methyl-3-methyl-sulfanyl-1-benzofuran with 3-chloro-peroxy-benzoic acid. The 4-iodo-phenyl ring makes a dihedral angle of 37.97?(9)° with the plane of the benzofuran fragment, and the O atom and the methyl group of the methyl-sulfinyl substituent lie on opposite sides of this plane. The mol-ecular packing is stabilized by C-H?? inter-actions between H atoms on the 4-iodo-phenyl ring and the benzofuran rings, and by an I?O halogen bond of 3.252?(2)?Å with a nearly linear C-I?O angle of 163.06?(8)°. In addition, the stacked mol-ecules exhibit inversion-related S?O contacts [3.209?(2)?Å] involving the sulfinyl groups. | lld:pubmed |
