1,2-Dihydrospiro[carbazole-3(4H),2′-[1,3]dioxolane]

Abstract

In the title compound, C14H15NO2, the hydrogenated six-membered ring of the carbazole unit adopts a half-chair conformation and the dioxolane ring points to one side of the carbazole plane. Neighbouring mol­ecules form edge-to-face inter­actions in which the NH group is directed towards an adjacent carbazole unit, with a shortest H⋯C contact of 2.72 Å. These inter­actions arrange the mol­ecules into one-dimensional herringbone-type motifs, which pack so that the methyl­ene groups of the dioxolane ring lie over the face of a neighbouring carbazole unit with a shortest H⋯C contact of 2.85 Å.