2-Acetyl-anilinium chloride.

The cation of the title salt, C(8)H(10)NO(+)·Cl(-), is essentially planar [C-C-C-C torsion angle = 4.6†(2)°], the conformation being stabilized by an intra-molecular N-H⋯O hydrogen bond. In the crystal, centrosymmetric aggregates are formed via N-H⋯Cl hydrogen bonds. These dimeric aggregates are sustained in the crystal packing by a combination of C-H⋯Cl, C-H⋯O and C-O⋯π [O⋯ring centroid(benzene ring) = 3.1871†(13) and 3.3787†(13)†à ] inter-actions.