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Ethyl (2R,3S)-2-benzoyl-3-(4-bromo-phen-yl)-4-nitro-butano-ate
Abstract:
The title compoud, C(19)H(18)BrNO(5), was synthesized by an organocatalytic reaction. The aymmetric unit contains two independent mol-ecules, in each of which the carbon between the two carbonyl groups adopts an R configuration, while the adjacent C atom has an S configuration. The dihedral angle between the two benzene rings is different in the two mol-ecules [11.64 (3) and 58.96 (4)°].
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