Crystal structure and Hirshfeld surface analysis of (E)-3-[(4-methylbenzylidene)amino]-5-phenylthiazolidin-2-iminium bromide N,N-dimethylformamide monosolvate

In the cation of the title salt, C17H18N3S+·Br-·C3H7NO, the central thia-zolidine ring adopts an envelope conformation with puckering parameters Q(2) = 0.310 (3) A and φ(2) = 42.2 (6)°. In the crystal, each cation is connected to two anions by N-H⋯ Br hydrogen bonds, forming an R42(8) motif parallel to the (10) plane. van der Waals inter-actions between the cations, anions and N,N-di-methyl-formamide mol-ecules further stabilize the crystal structure in three dimensions. The most important contributions to the surface contacts are from H⋯H (55.6%), C⋯H/H⋯C (17.9%) and Br⋯H/H⋯Br (7.0%) inter-actions, as concluded from a Hirshfeld analysis.