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Alan J Rodríguez1, J Martin E Quirke1, Aida O Diouf2
1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th Street, Miami, Florida 33199, USA.
Abstract:
The asymmetric unit of the title compound, [Fe(C5H5)(C7H8NO2)], contains two independent mol-ecules consisting of a ferrocenyl moiety and a nitro-gen-bound methyl carbamate. These units are almost perpendicular to each other, making dihedral angles of 87.74 (9) and 87.32 (8)°. In each independent mol-ecule, the cyclo-penta-dienyl rings deviate slightly from an eclipsed conformation and lie virtually parallel [dihedral angles = 1.42 (15) and 0.49 (13)°]. In the crystal, mol-ecules are linked by N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds into chains along the a-axis direction.
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