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Published on: November 23, 2016
2-(6-Hy-droxy-1-benzo-furan-3-yl)acetamide
D B Arunakumar1, G Krishnaswamy1, S Sreenivasa1
1Department of Studies and Research in Chemistry, Tumkur University, Tumkur, Karnataka 572 103, India.
Abstract:
In the title compound, C10H9NO3, the dihedral angle between the benzo-furan ring system (r.m.s. deviation for the non-H atoms = 0.009 Å) and the -C-C(O)-N- segment is 83.76 (1)°. In the crystal, mol-ecules are linked by N-H⋯O and O-H⋯O hydrogen bonds, generating (001) sheets, which feature C(4) and C(10) chains.
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