4-Nitro-benzyl 2-chloro-acetate

In the mol-ecule of the title compound, C₉H₈ClNO ₄, the nearly planar acetate moiety [maximum deviation = 0.015 (3) Å for an O atom] is oriented with respect to the plane of the aromatic ring at a dihedral angle of 73.03 (3)°. In the crystal structure, inter-molecular C - H⋯O inter-actions link mol-ecules into a network. π-π contacts between benzene rings [centroid-centroid distance = 4.000 (1) Å] may further stabilize the structure.