title: 3,4-Dimeth-oxy-4'-nitro-1,1'-biphen-yl.
abstract: The title compound, C(14)H(13)NO(4), was prepared through a palladium-catalysed Suzuki-Miyaura coupling reaction. The asymmetric unit comprises two mol-ecules related by pseudo-inversion symmetry. The dihedral angles between the benzene rings in the two mol-ecules are 44.30 (6) and 48.50 (6)° while those between the benzene ring and the nitro group are 6.54 (13) and 5.73 (10)°. The crystal packing is defined only by Van der Waals inter-actions.
authors.affiliation: College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Heilongjiang University, Harbin 150080,  People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Xin-Min
authors.initials: XM
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Yan-Jun
authors.initials: YJ
authors.lastname: Hou
authors.forename: Wen-Yi
authors.initials: WY
authors.lastname: Chu
authors.forename: Zhi-Zhong
authors.initials: ZZ
authors.lastname: Sun