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Acta Crystallographica. Section E, Structure Reports Online
|January 5, 2011
Abstract:
In the centrosymmetric title compound, C(16)H(14)Br(2)N(2)O(2), the intra-molecular interplanar distance between the parallel benzene rings is 1.305 (3) Å, while the inter-molecular interplanar distance (between neighbouring mol-ecules) is 3.463 (3) Å, exhibiting obvious strong inter-molecular π-π stacking inter-actions.
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