2,2′-{[2-(2-Chlorophenyl)-4-methylimidazolidine-1,3-diyl]bis(methylene)}diphenol

Abstract

In the title compound, C24H25ClN2O2, the 2-hy­droxy­benzyl substituents and the 2-chloro­phenyl group occupy the sterically preferred equatorial positions, whereas the methyl group occupies the axial position. The imidazolidine ring adopts an envelope conformation with one of the N atoms adjacent to the methylene group as the flap. The chloro­phenyl substit­uent approaches a nearly perpendicular orientation relative to the mean plane of the imidazolidine ring, making a dihedral angle of 73.44 (12)° and the Cl atom is almost coplanar with the C atom bearing the chloro­phenyl substituent [Cl—C—C—C torsion angle = 1.1 (3)°]. The hy­droxy­benzyl groups make dihedral angles of 71.23 (15) and 69.13 (19)° with the mean plane of the heterocyclic ring. The dihedral angle between the two hy­droxy­benzyl groups is 69.61 (12)°. The mol­ecular structure features two intra­molecular O—H⋯N hydrogen bonds with graph-set motif S(6) between the phenolic hydroxyl groups and N atoms.