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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-[4-(2-Propyn-1-yl-oxy)phen-yl]acetamide
Yonas H Belay1, Henok H Kinfe, Alfred Muller
1Research Centre for Synthesis and Catalysis, Department of Chemistry, University of Johannesburg (APK Campus), PO Box 524, Auckland Park, Johannesburg, 2006, South Africa.
Abstract:
The title compound, C(11)H(11)NO(2), was synthesized by chemoselective N-acetyl-ation of 4-amino-phenol followed by reaction with propargyl bromide in the presence of K(2)CO(3). the acetamide and propyn-1-yloxy substituents form dihedral angles of 18.31 (6) and 7.01 (10)°, respectively, with the benzene ring. In the crystal, mol-ecules are linked by N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds into chains along [010]. C-H⋯O and C-H⋯π inter-actions also occur.
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