1-(3-Oxo-3-phenylpropyl)piperidinium chloride

Abstract

In the title salt, C14H20NO+·Cl−, the piperidine ring adopts a chair conformation. In the crystal, the cations and anions are linked by classical N—H...Cl hydrogen bond and weak C—H...Cl and C—H...O hydrogen bonds; the C—H...O hydrogen bonds exhibit R22(14) ring motifs while the C—H...Cl hydrogen bonds link the molecules into chains along the a-axis direction. π–π stacking is observed between parallel phenyl rings of adjacent cations, the centroid–centroid distance being 3.8164 (15) Å