1-(2-Chloro­phen­yl)-2-(2-methyl-5-phenyl-3-thien­yl)-3,3,4,4,5,5-hexa­fluoro­cyclo­pent-1-ene: a new photochromic diaryl­ethene

The title compound, C(22)H(13)ClF(6)S, is a hybrid diaryl­ethene derivative with one 3-thienyl substituent, and a Cl-substituted six-membered aryl unit bonded to the double bond of a hexa­fluoro­cyclo­pentene ring. In the crystal structure, the mol­ecule adopts a photo-active anti­parallel conformation that can undergo effective photocyclization reactions. The distance between the two reactive C atoms is 3.848 (3) Å. The dihedral angles between the least-squares cyclo­pentene plane and those of the adjacent thio­phene and chloro­phenyl rings are 49.39 (8) and 59.88 (8)°, respectively. The F atoms are disordered over two positions, with site occupancy factors of 0.6 and 0.4.