Molecular structure of ortho-nitrobenzyltriethylammonium bromide

It was established by x-ray crystallographic analysis that the molecular o-nitrobenzyltriethylammonium cation has an orthogonal orientation of the benzene ring and the vicinal C-N+ bond (φ=93.8°). The nitro group deviates from the plane of the aromatic ring by an angle of 26.9°. One of the ethyl groups at the quaternary nitrogen atom is in an ap-conformation (φ=176.2°); the other two are in sc-conformations, characterized by torsional angles 65.1 and 69.4°.