Crystal structures of crotonaldehyde semicarbazone and crotonaldehyde thiosemicarbazone from X-ray powder diffraction data

Crotonaldehyde semicarbazone {systematic name: (E)-2-[(E)-but-2-en-1-yl­idene]hydrazinecarboxamide}, C(5)H(9)N(3)O, (I), and crotonaldehyde thio­semi­carba­zone {systematic name: (E)-2-[(E)-but-2-en-1-yldene]hydra­zinecarbo­­thio­amide}, C(5)H(9)N(3)S, (II), show the same E conformation around the imine C=N bond. Compounds (I) and (II) were obtained by the condensation of crotonaldehyde with semicarbazide hydro­chloride and thio­semicarbazide, respectively. Each mol­ecule has an intra­molecular N—H⋯N hydrogen bond, which generates an S(5) ring. In (I), the crotonaldehyde fragment is twisted by 2.59 (5)° from the semicarbazide mean plane, while in (II) the corresponding angle (with the thio­semicarbazide mean plane) is 9.12 (5)°. The crystal packing is different in the two compounds: in (I) inter­molecular N—H⋯O hydrogen bonds link the mol­ecules into layers parallel to the bc plane, while weak inter­molecular N—H⋯S hydrogen bonds in (II) link the mol­ecules into chains propagating in [110].