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Preparation and In Vivo Use of an Activity-based Probe for N-acylethanolamine Acid Amidase
Published on: November 23, 2016
N'-[(E)-4-(Dimethyl-amino)-benz-ylidene]-2-(5-meth-oxy-2-methyl-1H-indol-3-yl)acetohydrazide
Abstract:
In the title compound, C(21)H(24)N(4)O(2), inversion-related mol-ecules are linked into dimers through pairs of N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds, which generate R(2) (2)(8) motifs. As well as dimer formation, an additional N-H⋯O hydrogen bond and two C-H⋯π contacts, involving H atoms from the phenyl ring and the pyrrole and benzene rings of the indole system, generate a three-dimensional network.
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