2-[(2-Chlorophenyl)(hydroxy)methyl]phenol

• Main Authors: D. K. Ravishankara, H. S. Yathirajan, Jared S. Brown, Jerry P. Jasinski, G. Prakasha
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: International Union of Crystallography 2013-08-01
• Series: Acta Crystallographica Section E
• Online Access: http://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?S1600536813018667

In the title compound, C13H11ClO2, the dihedral angle between the mean planes of the 2-chlorophenyl and phenol rings is 87.4 (9)°. The methyl hydroxy group lies nearly perpendicular to the plane of its attached benzene ring [O—C—C—C torsion angle = 84.3 (3)°]. The two hydroxy groups lie on the same side of the molecule and are in a slightly twisted gauche conformation [O—C—C—O torsion angle = 77.1 (8)°] to each other. In the crystal, O—H...O hydrogen bonds between nearby methylhydroxy groups form dimers in alternating pairs aligned diagonally along the b axis. A view along the c axis reveals a hexameric aggregate mediated by a ring of six O—H...O hydrogen bonds generating an R66(12) motif loop.