The crystal structures of the title compounds, methyl 3,5-di-methyl-benzoate (C10H12O2; 1), 3,5-bis-(bromo-meth-yl)phenyl acetate (C10H10Br2O2; 2) and 5-hy-droxy-benzene-1,3-dicarbaldehyde (C8H6O3; 3) were determined by single-crystal X-ray analysis. The crystals of 1 are composed of strands of C-H⋯O=C bonded mol-ecules, which are further arranged into layers. As a result of the presence of two bromo-methyl substituents in compound 2, mol-ecular dimers formed by crystallographically non-equivalent mol-ecules are connected to structurally different two-dimensional aggregates in which the bromine atoms participate in Br⋯Br bonds of type I and type II. In the case of compound 3, which possesses three donor/acceptor substituents, the mol-ecular association in the crystal creates a close three-dimensional network comprising Car-yl-H⋯Ohy-droxy, Cform-yl-H⋯Oform-yl and O-H⋯Oform-yl bonds.