“…In the present work, the structure of 2-chloro-N-(3,5-dimethylphenyl)-benzamide (N35DMP2CBA) has been determined to explore the substituent effects on the solid state structures of benzanilides (Gowda et al, 2003(Gowda et al, , 2008a. The conformations of N-H and C=O bonds in the amide group of N35DMP2CBA are trans to each other ( Fig.1), similar to that observed in 2-chloro-N-(3,5-dichlorophenyl)-benzamide(N35DCP2CBA) (Gowda et al, 2008a), 2-chloro-N-(phenyl)-benzamide (NP2CBA) (Gowda et al, 2003) and other benzanilides (Gowda et al, 2008b). Further, the conformation of the amide oxygen in N35DMP2CBA is anti to the ortho-chloro group in the benzoyl ring similar to that observed in N35DCP2CBA but in contrast to the syn conformation observed in NP2CBA.…”