Structure of Acetanilide

space-filling rendering of the acetanilide crystal structure generated with POV-Ray

Contents: [Acetanilide NMR] [Structure references] [H-1 NMR] [C-13 NMR] [Links]

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The crystal structures of acetanilide have been published in:

S. Johnson, J. Eckert, M. Barthes, R. Mc Mullan,
"Crystal Structure of Acetanilide at 15K and 295K by neutron diffraction",
J. Phys. Chem. 1995, 99, 16253; DOI: 10.1021/j100044a009

H. J. Wasserman, R. R. Ryan, S. P. Layne,
"Structure of acetanilide (C8H9NO) at 113 K",
Acta Cryst. 1985, C41, 783. DOI: 10.1107/S0108270185005492

You can download a file containing the coordinates from the Wasserman paper in either PDB or CIF format. If you don't have software to view structures, you may want to try some of the programs listed on my X-ray links page. Or visit my Structure of Acetanilide page mentioned above.

If you have JavaScript enabled, this structure of acetanilide is rendered using the JSmol java script object; you can rotate and change the display style while the mouse is over the grey area.

The structure displayed here is based on the investigation of Wasserman:
H. J. Wasserman, R. R. Ryan, S. P. Layne,
"Structure of acetanilide (C8H9NO) at 113 K",
Acta Cryst. 1985, C41, 783, DOI: 10.1107/S0108270185005492

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