title: Methyl N-(4-chlorophenyl)succinamate.
abstract: In the structure of the title compound {systematic name: methyl 3-[(4-chloro-phen-yl)amino-carbon-yl]propionate}, C(11)H(12)ClNO(3), the conformations of the N-H and C=O bonds in the amide fragment are trans to each other and the conformations of the amide O atom and the carbonyl O atom of the ester fragment are also trans to the H atoms attached to the adjacent C atoms. Mol-ecules are linked into a centrosymmetric R(2) (2)(14) dimer by simple N-H⋯O inter-actions. Furthermore, a short intra-molecular C-H⋯O contact may stabilize the conformation adopted by the mol-ecule in the crystal.
authors.forename: B Thimme
authors.initials: BT
authors.lastname: Gowda
authors.forename: Sabine
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Foro
authors.forename: B S
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: Saraswathi
authors.forename: Hiromitsu
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Terao
authors.forename: Hartmut
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Fuess