N-ferrocenylmethyl-2-nitroaniline

Abstract

In the title compound, [Fe(C5H5)(C12H 11N2O2)], the two cyclopentadienyl (Cp) rings are nearly eclipsed and parallel to each other, the dihedral angle between their mean planes being 2.54 (1)°. One of the Cp rings is substituted by a nitrobenzenamine group, which is essentially perpendicular to the substituted cyclopentadienyl ring, with an N - C(H2) - C - C torsion angle of 89.8 (2)°. Intramolecular N - H···O and N - H···N hydrogen bonds occur. In the crystal, weak C - H···O hydrogen bonds link adjacent molecules.