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Published on: November 21, 2010
Crystal structure of N-(di-phenyl-phosphor-yl)-2-meth-oxy-benzamide
Victor A Trush1, Nataliia S Kariaka1, Viktoriya V Dyakonenko2
1Department of Chemistry, Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, Volodymyrska, str. 64, 01601 Kyiv, Ukraine.
Abstract:
In the title compound, C20H18NO3P, the C=O and P=O groups of the carbacyl-amido-phosphate (CAPh) fragments are located in a synclinal position relative to each other and are pre-organized for bidentate chelate coordination of metal ions. The N-H group is involved in the formation of an intra-molecular hydrogen bond. In the crystal, mol-ecules do not form strong inter-molecular inter-actions but the mol-ecules are linked via weak C-H⋯π inter-actions, forming chains along [001].
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