title: Crystal structure of N-[(methyl-sulfan-yl)carbon-yl]urea.
abstract: The almost planar (r.m.s. deviation = 0.055 Å) title compound, (MeS)C(O)NHC(O)NH2, was formed during an attempted crystallization of dimethyl cyano-carbonimidodi-thio-ate with CrO2Cl2; an unexpected redox reaction converted the cyano-carbonimido moiety to a urea group and removed one methyl-thiol group. In the crystal, hydrogen-bonding inter-actions from the amide and amido N-H groups to carbonyl O atoms of neighbouring mol-ecules result in [010] ribbon-like chains.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Chimie Minérale et Analytique, Département de Chimie, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal.
authors.forename: Mouhamadou Birame
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Diop
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Chimie Minérale et Analytique, Département de Chimie, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal.
authors.forename: Libasse
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Diop
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46557-5670, USA.
authors.forename: Allen G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Oliver
keywords: crystal structure; hydrogen bonds; one-dimensional structure