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organic compounds
The asymmetric unit of the title structure, 1,1-dimethyl-1-silacyclohexane-3,4-diyl bis(4-nitrobenzoate), consists of four independent C21H22N2O8Si molecules which show only minor differences in conformation. The silacyclohexane ring adopts a distorted chair conformation, with the C4 substituent axial and the C3 substituent equatorial.