“…The angle between the mean plane of the benzene ring and the mean plane of the propenoic acid moiety is 3.5 (7) in (I) and 2.6 in 4-dimethylamino-3-nitrocinnamic acid (Huber, 1985). The corresponding angles in 4-chlorocinnamic acid (Glusker et al, 1975), 4-iodocinnamic acid (Goud et al, 1993), p-nitrocinnamic acid (Kageyama et al, 1993), 3,5-dinitrocinnamic acid and the 3,5-dinitrocinnamic acid 2,5dimethoxycinnamic acid complex (Desiraju & Sharma, 1991) are 14.1, 13.8, 4.7, 28.7 and 6.4 , respectively. In the 3,5dinitrocinnamic acid 4-(N,N-dimethylamino)cinnamic acid complex, the propenoic acid group is twisted by 7.6 out of the mean plane of the benzene ring (Sharma et al, 1993).…”