Ethyl 8-methoxy-4-oxo-1,4-dihydroquinoline-3-carboxylate
In the title compound, C13H13NO4, the asymmetric unit contains four independent molecules, each exhibiting an intramolecular N—H...O hydrogen bond. The ethyl group in one of the four molecules is disordered, with a refined occupancy ratio of 0.295 (16):0.705 (16). A face-to-face stacking interaction is found between the benzene rings of the quinoline units of two of the molecules [centroid–centroid distance = 3.541 (2) Å], which are sandwiched by the other two molecules through N—H...O hydrogen bonding. In the crystal, the sandwiched molecules are assembledviastacking interactions along theb-axis direction with their translation-symmetry equivalents [centroid–centroid distance = 3.529 (2) Å], and are further linked through N—H...O hydrogen bonding. The other two molecules are linkedviastacking interactions with their inversion-symmetry equivalents [centroid–centroid distances = 3.512 (3) and 3.716 (4) Å] andviaN—H...O hydrogen bonding.