Coumarin derivatives are a useful component for developing new materials, such as fluorescence materials and laser dyes; non-linear optical materials and reagents; photorefractive materials; photoresistors; intermediates for drug synthesis; luminescence materials; analytical reagents, etc. 1,2 Coumarin 311, 7-(dimethylamino)-4-methylcoumarin, is also used as laser dyes. It gives laser emission at around 453 nm in ethanol. The crystal structure of coumarin 311 has already been reported. 3 However the fluorence property and crystal structure of 3-bromo-7-(dimethylamino)-4-methylcoumarin (1) has not yet been reported. We now report on the crystal structure of 1 with the aim of the contributing to a deeper understanding of the substituent effect at the 3-position of coumarin 311 on the structure and crystal packing.Compound (1), shown in Fig. 1, was synthesized by the reaction of 7-(dimethylamino)-4-methylcoumarin with bromine in glacial acetic acid, as reported in a previous paper. 4 The spectral data of 1 are as follows: mp 168 -169˚C, 1 H NMR (CDCl3) d 2.53 (3H, s), 3.06 (6H, s), 6.48 (1H, d, J = 2.6 Hz), 6.62 (1H, dd, J = 9.0 Hz, 2.6 Hz), and 7.43 (1H, d, J = 9.0 Hz). 13 C NMR (CDCl3) d 19.15, 40.1(2C), 97.7, 106.2, 109.3, 109.4, 125.8, 151.5, 152.8, 154.1, and 158.0. Compound (1) gave a strong emission band at 442 nm in chloroform solution (1.0 ¥ 10 -5 M) when excited at 380 nm. Single crystals of 1 were grown in chloroform at room temperature. Data collection and refinement parameters are listed in Table 1. The H atoms were positioned with the idealized geometry, and were refined to be isotropic (Uiso(H) = 1.2Ueq(C)) using a riding model with C-H = 0.95 Å for aromatic H atoms and C-H = 0.98 Å for methyl H atoms. The selected bond distances and angles are collected in Table 2.An ORTEP drawing of the molecule of 1 is shown in Fig. 2 The structure of 3-bromo-7-(dimethylamino)-4-methylcoumarin (1) was determined by X-ray crystallography. It crystallizes in the space group P21/n (#14) with cell parameters a = 9.000 (