“…1), the C1-N1-C13 angle [127.93 (13) ] is comparable with the corresponding angle in five related structures, viz. N-[4-(pyrrolidin-1-ylcarbonylmethoxy)phenyl]acetamide, (II) [130.06 (18) ; Sundar et al,2005], 2-[4-(acetamido)phenoxy]-N,N-dimethylacetamide, (III) [129.72 (18) ); Sundar et al, 2006], N-[4-(4-methylpiperazin-1-ylsulfonyl)phenyl]acetamide, (IV) [128.43 (19) ; Guo, 2004], N-(4-amino-2-methoxyphenyl)acetamide, (V) [129.78 (17) ; Robin et al, 2002] and N-[4-(acetyloxy)phenyl]acetamide, (VI) [128.8 (2) ; Caira et al, 1999]. A possible reason for the large value of this angle, when compared with the normal value of 120 , may be the short intramolecular contact between the atoms O3Á Á ÁH2 (2.38 Å ), which is less than the sum of their van der Waals radii (2.72 Å ; Bondi, 1964;Rowland & Taylor, 1996), leading to an intramolecular C-HÁ Á ÁO interaction (Table 1) (Desiraju, 1997).…”