N-(2-Chloro­phen­yl)succinamic acid

The conformations of the N—H and C=O bonds in the amide segment of the structure of the title compound {systematic name: 3-[(2-chloro­phen­yl)amino­carbon­yl]propionic acid}, C(10)H(10)ClNO(3), are trans to each other, while the conformation of the amide H atom is syn to the ortho-chloro group in the benzene ring. Further, the conformations of the amide O atom and the carbonyl O atom of the ester segment are also trans to the H atoms attached to the adjacent C atoms. In the crystal structure, mol­ecules are packed into infinite chains through inter­molecular N—H⋯O and O—H⋯O hydrogen bonds.