Dimethyl 2-[(acridin-9-yl)methyl-idene]malonate

Acta Crystallogr Sect E Struct Rep Online. 2013 Feb 1;69(Pt 2):o224. doi: 10.1107/S1600536813000500. Epub 2013 Jan 12.

Abstract

In the title compound, C(19)H(15)NO(4), the acridine system is essentially planar (r.m.s. deviation = 0.015 Å). The crystal packing exhibits π-π inter-actions between pairs of centrosymmetric mol-ecules, one of them between the central heterocyclic rings and others between the outer benzene rings of the acridine systems, with centroid-centroid distances of 3.692 (1) and 3.754 (1) Å, respectively. These pairs are further linked by additional π-π inter-actions along the a-axis direction through one of the two outer benzene ring of neighboring mol-ecules, with a centroid-centroid distance of 3.642 (2) Å.