title: N-Benzyl-2-(2-bromo-phen-yl)-2-(2-nitro-phen-oxy)acetamide.
abstract: The title compound, C(21)H(17)BrN(2)O(4), a 2-phen-oxy-2-phenyl-acetamide derivative, exhibits a stereogenic center but crystallizes as a racemate as indicated by the centrosymmetric space group. In the mol-ecular structure, the nitro-substituted benzene ring is coplanar [dihedral angle = 12.9 (1)°] with the plane formed by H-N-C(=O)-C=O due to intra-molecular N-H⋯O hydrogen-bond inter-actions.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Asymmetric Catalysis and Synthesis, Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310027, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Huo Ming
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Jin-Long
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Wu