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Continuous Flow Chemistry: Reaction of Diphenyldiazomethane with p-Nitrobenzoic Acid
Published on: November 15, 2017
2,2'-Dimeth-oxy-6,6'-dinitro-biphen-yl
Shao-Bin Miao1, Dong-Sheng Deng, Xian-Ming Liu
1College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Luoyang Normal University, Luoyang 471022, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
In the title compound, C(14)H(12)N(2)O(6), the half mol-ecule in the asymmetric unit of the cell is completed by a crystallographic twofold rotation axis, and the two benzene rings of the complete mol-ecule make a dihedral angle of 60.5 (3)°. Furthermore, inter-molecular weak C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds link adjacent mol-ecules, forming a two-dimensional sheet. These sheets are stablized by face-to-face weak π-π contacts [centroid-centroid distance = 3.682 (1) Å] between the nearly parallel [dihedral angle = 0.12 (7)°] benzene rings of the neighboring mol-ecules, resulting in a three-dimensional network.
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