N,N'-Bis(2-hydroxyethyl)benzene-1,4-dicarboxamide

The molecule of the title compound, C12H16N2O4, is centrosymmetric and the amide group is twisted relative to the benzene ring by 14.40 (13)°. The mol-ecules are hydrogen bonded into a three-dimensional framework, with the hydr-oxy O atoms acting as acceptors in N - H⋯O hydrogen bonds and as donors in O - H⋯O=C inter-actions