Methyl 2-(3-chloro­benzamido)­benzoate

In the mol­ecule of the title compound, C(15)H(12)ClNO(3), the chloro­benzamide and benzoate units are almost co-planar, with a dihedral angle between the six-membered rings of 2.99 (10)°. An intra­molecular N—H⋯O hydrogen bond occurs. In the crystal, each mol­ecule 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 mol­ecules, with an inter­planar distance of 3.46 (2) Å and a centroid–centroid vector of 3.897 (2) Å.