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Preparation and In Vivo Use of an Activity-based Probe for N-acylethanolamine Acid Amidase
Published on: November 23, 2016
(E)-N'-[3-(4-Chloro-benzo-yloxy)benzyl-idene]pyridine-4-carbohydrazide acetic acid monosolvate monohydrate
1College of Sciences, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin 300457, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
In the Schiff base mol-ecule of the title compound, C(20)H(14)ClN(3)O(3)·CH(3)COOH·H(2)O, the central benzene ring makes dihedral angles of 36.26 (7) and 27.59 (8)°, respectively, with the terminal chloro-phenyl and pyridine rings. In the crystal, the three components are linked by O-H⋯O, N-H⋯O, O-H⋯N and C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds into a double-tape structure along the a axis.
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