From the early 1950s until late 1970s, Augusta Bay (Sicily, Italy) served as a major European (petro) chemical hub. It thereafter began progressive decline several crude oil refining and industrial plants closed due to transfer of production cycles other sites around globe. As result rapid relatively uncontrolled post-WWII development site, environmental studies identified significant contamina...

In the title compound, C(18)H(19)Cl(3)O(2), which is the 4-eth-oxy-phenyl analogue of the insecticidally active 4-meth-oxy-phenyl compound meth-oxy-chlor, the dihedral angle between the two benzene rings is 60.38 (13)°. An intra-molecular aromatic C-H⋯Cl inter-action is present.