title: Methyl 2-(3-chloro-benzamido)-benzoate.
abstract: In the mol-ecule of the title compound, C15H12ClNO3, the chloro-benzamide and benzoate units are almost co-planar, with a dihedral angle between the six-membered rings of 2.99 (10)°. An intra-molecular N-H⋯O hydrogen bond occurs. In the crystal, each mol-ecule is linked to a symmetry-equivalent counterpart across a twofold rotation axis by weak C-H⋯O and C-H⋯Cl hydrogen bonds, forming dimers. The packing is stabilized through weak π-π stacking along the b-axis direction, leading to π-stacked columns of inversion-related mol-ecules, with an inter-planar distance of 3.46 (2) Å and a centroid-centroid vector of 3.897 (2) Å.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Chimie Bio-organique et Macromoléculaire, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques Guéliz, Marrakech, Morocco.
authors.forename: Abdelaaziz
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ouahrouch
authors.forename: Moha
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Taourirte
authors.forename: Hassan B
authors.initials: HB
authors.lastname: Lazrek
authors.forename: Mohamed
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: El Azhari
authors.forename: Mohamed
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Saadi
authors.forename: Lahcen
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: El Ammari