Dimethyl 2,2'-di-nitro-biphenyl-4,4'-di-carboxyl-ate

Ryan L Lehane; James A Golen; Arnold L Rheingold; David R Manke

doi:10.1107/S1600536814003067

Dimethyl 2,2'-di-nitro-biphenyl-4,4'-di-carboxyl-ate

Acta Crystallogr Sect E Struct Rep Online. 2014 Feb 15;70(Pt 3):o305. doi: 10.1107/S1600536814003067. eCollection 2014 Mar 1.

Authors

Ryan L Lehane¹, James A Golen², Arnold L Rheingold², David R Manke¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 285 Old Westport Road, North Dartmouth, MA 02747, USA.
² Department of Chemistry, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.

Abstract

The title compound, C16H12N2O8, exhibits two near-planar aromatic ester groups with ar-yl-ester dihedral angles of 2.1 (2) and 4.2 (3)°. The dihedral angle between the aromatic rings is 58.0 (1)°. The two nitro groups are tilted slightly from the plane of the aromatic rings, making dihedral angles of 14.1 (1) and 8.2 (2)°. In the crystal, mol-ecules are connected by weak C-H⋯O inter-actions, forming a three-dimensional network.