Crystal structure of 3-[(2-acetamido-phen-yl)imino]-butan-2-one

Feng Zhai; Joseph B Solomon; Alexander S Filatov; Richard F Jordan

doi:10.1107/S2056989018000749

Crystal structure of 3-[(2-acetamido-phen-yl)imino]-butan-2-one

Acta Crystallogr E Crystallogr Commun. 2018 Jan 19;74(Pt 2):193-195. doi: 10.1107/S2056989018000749. eCollection 2018 Feb 1.

Authors

Feng Zhai¹, Joseph B Solomon¹, Alexander S Filatov¹, Richard F Jordan¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, The University of Chicago, 5735 South Ellis Ave, Chicago, Il 60637, USA.

Abstract

In the title compound, 3-[(2-acetamido-phen-yl)imino]-butan-2-one, C₁₂H₁₄N₂O₂, the imine C=N bond is essentially coplanar with the ketone C=O bond in an s-trans conformation. The benzene ring is twisted away from the plane of the C=N bond by 53.03 (14)°. The acetamido unit is essentially coplanar with the benzene ring. In the crystal, mol-ecules are connected into chains along the c axis through C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds, with two adjacent chains being hinged by C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds.

Keywords: crystal structure; hydrogen bonding; iminoketone.

Grants and funding

This work was funded by National Science Foundation grant CHE-1709159.