Methyl N-(4-chlorophenyl)succinamate

In the structure of the title compound {systematic name: methyl 3-[(4-chloro­phen­yl)amino­carbon­yl]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. Mol­ecules are linked into a centrosymmetric R (2) (2)(14) dimer by simple N—H⋯O inter­actions. Furthermore, a short intra­molecular C—H⋯O contact may stabilize the conformation adopted by the mol­ecule in the crystal.