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Preparation and In Vivo Use of an Activity-based Probe for N-acylethanolamine Acid Amidase
Published on: November 23, 2016
2-(1-Ethyl-5-meth-oxy-1H-indol-3-yl)-N-(4-meth-oxy-phen-yl)-2-oxoacetamide
Abstract:
The title compound, C(20)H(20)N(2)O(4), crystallizes with four independent mol-ecules in the asymmetric unit. In the mol-ecules, the dihedral angles between the benzene rings and indole mean planes are 24.5 (1), 22.5 (1), 8.8 (1) and 13.9 (1)°. In the crystal, inter-molecular N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds are present between the imino groups and the adjacent carbonyl groups. π-π stacking is also observed with a centroid-centroid distance between nearly parallel pyrrole rings of 3.745 (3) Å.
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