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2-(2,2-Dimethyl-2,3-dihydro-1-benzofuran-7-yl-oxy)-N-(o-tol-yl)acetamide
Abstract:
In the title compound, C(19)H(21)NO(3), the dihedral angle between the mean planes of the two benzene rings is 38.13 (12)°. The furan ring adopts an envelope-like conformation with the C atom bonded to the dimethyl groups displaced by 0.356 (2) Å from the plane through the other four atoms. In the crystal, mol-ecules are linked into inversion dimers by weak C-H⋯O inter-molecular inter-actions.
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