title: N,N,N',N'-Tetra-kis(2-hydroxy-ethyl)terephthalamide.
abstract: The mol-ecule of the title compound, C(16)H(24)N(2)O(6), which lies on a crystallographic inversion centre in the centre of the benzene ring, adopts an anti conformation in terms of the relative orientation of two amide carbonyl groups. One pair of the 2-hydroxy-ethyl groups is partially disordered with site occupancy factors of 0.811 (2) and 0.189 (2). The dihedral angle between the amide group and central benzene ring is 67.0 (2)°. Two O-H⋯O and one bifurcated O-H⋯(O,O) hydrogen bonds are present, resulting in a three-dimensional network.
authors.forename: Zhi-Qiang
authors.initials: ZQ
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Chen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Ying-Fei
authors.initials: YF
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Fei-Fei
authors.initials: FF
authors.lastname: Cen
authors.forename: Yu-Qing
authors.initials: YQ
authors.lastname: Zhang