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Published on: June 21, 2017
Ethyl 6-(4-bromo-phen-yl)-4-(4-fluoro-phen-yl)-2-oxocyclo-hex-3-ene-1-carboxyl-ate
Rajni Kant1, Vivek K Gupta, Kamini Kapoor
1X-ray Crystallography Laboratory, Post-Graduate Department of Physics & Electronics, University of Jammu, Jammu Tawi 180 006, India.
Abstract:
There are two independent mol-ecules in the asymmetric unit of the title compound, C(21)H(18)BrFO(3), in which the dihedral angles between the fluoro-phenyl and bromo-phenyl groups are 77.0 (1) and 85.8 (1)°. In one of the mol-ecules, two methine C-H groups of the cyclo-hexene ring are disordered over two sets of sites in a 0.53 (2):0.47 (2) ratio. In both mol-ecules, the atoms of the ethyl group were refined as disordered over two sets of sites with occupancies of 0.67 (2):0.33 (2) and 0.63 (4):0.37 (4). The cyclo-hexene rings have slightly distorted sofa conformations in both mol-ecules. In the crystal, C-H⋯O inter-actions link mol-ecules into chains along the b axis.
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