Crystal structure, Hirshfeld surface analysis and density functional theory study of 1-nonyl-3-phenyl-quinoxalin-2-one.

In the title mol-ecule, C(23)H(28)N(2)O, the phenyl ring is inclined to the quinoxaline ring system at a dihedral angle of 20.40†(9)°. In the crystal, C-H⋯O inter-actions between neighbouring mol-ecules form chains along the a-axis direction. Hirshfeld surface analysis indicates that the most important contributions to the crystal packing are from H⋯H (70.6%), H⋯C/C⋯H (15.5%) and H⋯O/O⋯H (4.6%) inter-actions. The optimized structure calculated using density functional theory at the B3LYP/6-311†G(d,p) level is compared with the experimentally determined structure in the solid state. The calculated highest occupied mol-ecular orbital (HOMO) and lowest unoccupied mol-ecular orbital (LUMO) energy gap is 3.8904†eV. Part of the n-nonyl chain attached to one of the nitro-gen atoms of the quinoxaline ring system shows disorder and was refined with a double conformation with occupancies of 0.604†(11) and 0.396†(11).