Ethyl 5-bromo-1-benzofuran-2-carboxylate

In the title compound, C11H9BrO3, the benzofuran fused-ring system is almost planar, with a maximum atomic deviation of 0.024 (5) angstrom; the carboxyl-CO2 fragment is aligned at 4.8 (7)degrees with respect to the fused-ring plane. Weak intermolecular CH center dot center dot center dot O hydrogen bonding is present in the crystal structure. pi-stacking is also observed between parallel molecules, the centroid-centroid distance between benzene and furan rings of adjacent molecules being 3.662 (3) angstrom.