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Matthew I J Polson1, Peter J Steel
1Chemistry Department, University of Canterbury, PO Box 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Abstract:
The title compound, C(22)H(28)Br(2)O(2), crystallizes in a staggered arrangement to minimize the inter-actions of its ortho substituents, with a dihedral angle of 84.2 (3)° between the two aromatic rings. Short C-H⋯O hydrogen-bonding inter-actions between meth-oxy groups result in a one-dimensional polymeric chain of mol-ecules lying parallel to the b axis. One tert-butyl group is disordered equally over two positions.
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