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Hong-Shun Sun1, Yu-Long Li1, Hong Jiang1
1Targeted MRI Contrast Agents Laboratory of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing Polytechnic Institute, Geguan Road No.265 Nanjing, Nanjing 210048, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
In the title compound, C29H25N3O6, the mean planes of the two indole ring systems (r.m.s. deviations = 0.0115 and 0.0082 Å) are approximately perpendic-ular to one another, making a dihedral angle of 89.7 (5)°; the benzene ring is twisted with respect to the two indole ring systems by 52.6 (4) and 88.2 (3)°. In the crystal, pairs of N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds link the mol-ecules into the inversion dimers, which are further linked into supra-molecular chains along the b-axis direction. Weak C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds and C-H⋯π inter-actions are also observed in the crystal.
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