The crystal structures of three 3-methyl-1H-1,2,4-triazole-5-thio-nes, including a second polymorph of 4-[(E)-(5-bromo-2-hy-droxy-benzyl-idene)amino]-3-methyl-1H-1,2,4-triazole-5(4H)-thione and a redetermination of 4-amino-3-methyl-1H-1,2,4-triazole-5(4H)-thione.

The structures of three 3-methyl-1H-1,2,4-triazole-5-thione derivatives are reported. The structure of 4-amino-3-methyl-1H-1,2,4-triazole-5(4H)-thione, C3H6N4S, (I), has been redetermined with an improved model for the H atoms: the non-H atoms of (I) all lie on mirror planes in space group Pbcm, and the H atoms of the methyl group are disordered over two sets of reflection-related atomic sites having occupancy 0.5: two independent N-H⋯S hydrogen bonds link the mol-ecules of compound (I) into complex sheets. The non-H atoms in the mol-ecules of 4-[(E)-(3,4-di-meth-oxy-benzyl-idene)amino]-3-methyl-1H-1,2,4-tri-azol-5(4H)-thione, C12H14N4O2S, (II), despite lying in general positions are close to planar, with a dihedral angle between the two rings of 6.31 (10)°: the mol-ecules of compound (II) are linked by a three-centre N-H⋯(O)2 hydrogen bond into a C(10)C(11)[R 1 (2)(5)] chain of rings. A second polymorph of 4-[(E)-(5-bromo-2-hy-droxy-5-bromo-benzyl-idene)amino]-3-methyl-1H-1,2,4-triazole-5(4H)-thione, C10H9BrN4OS, (III), has been identified; the non-H atoms are nearly co-planar with a dihedral angle between the two rings of 1.9 (4)°. There is an intra-molecular O-H⋯N hydrogen bond and the mol-ecules are linked by N-H⋯S hydrogen bonds, forming centrosymmetric R 2 (2)(8) dimers. Comparisons are made with some related structures.

4-[(E)-(4-Hy-droxy-benzyl-idene)amino]-3-methyl-1H-1,2,4-triazole-5(4H)-thione.

The title compound, C10H10N4OS, is nearly planar with the mean planes of the hy-droxy-benzyl and triazole rings inclined at an angle of only 3.2 (7)°. In the crystal, O-H⋯N hydrogen bonds between the hy-droxy group and the triazole ring in concert with weak N-H⋯S inter-molecular inter-actions between the triazole ring and thione group form chains along [-210] enclosing R 2 (2)(8) graph-set motifs. A weak intra-molecular C-H⋯S inter-action and inter-molecular π-π inter-actions [centroid-centroid distance = 3.5990 (15) Å] are also observed.