1-Adamantylmethyl 2-aminobenzoate

Abstract

The asymmetric unit of the title compound, C18H23NO2, consists of two crystallographically independent mol­ecules bearing an adamantane cage consisting of three fused cyclo­hexane rings in almost ideal chair conformations, with C—C—C angles in the range 108.47 (16)–110.59 (15)°. Both aryl rings are essentially planar, the maximum deviation from the best plane being 0.0125 (19) Å. One conformer forms chains parallel to the b axis via N—H⋯O hydrogen bonds, whereas the second exhibits only an intra­molecular N—H⋯O hydrogen bond. The crystal structure is stabilized by further weak N—H⋯O and N—H⋯N inter­actions.