title: tert-Butyl 2-(4-chloro-benzo-yl)-2-methyl-propanoate.
abstract: The title compound, C(15)H(19)ClO(3), is bent with a dihedral angle of 72.02 (9)° between the mean planes of the benzene ring and a group encompassing the ester functionality (O=C-O-C). In the crystal, mol-ecules related by inversion symmetry are connected by weak C-H⋯O inter-actions into infinite chains. These inter-actions involve H atoms from a methyl group of the dimethyl residue and the O atoms of the ketone on one side of a mol-ecule; on the other side there are inter-actions between H atoms of the benzene ring and the carbonyl O atoms of the ester functionality. There are no directional inter-actions between the chains.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, 1400 Townsend Drive, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI 49931, USA.
authors.forename: Chelsey M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Crosse
authors.forename: Emily C
authors.initials: EC
authors.lastname: Kelly
authors.forename: Marshall W
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Logue
authors.forename: Rudy L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Luck
authors.forename: John S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Maass
authors.forename: Katlyn C
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Mehne
authors.forename: Louis R
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: Pignotti