The title compound, C13H10O2, crystallizes with two almost planar mol-ecules in the asymmetric unit. In the crystal, slipped π-π stacking inter-actions help to establish the packing with the shortest centroid-centroid separation being 3.8195 (18) Å.
Keywords: crystal structure; cycloreversion; naphthoquinone; planarity; retro Diels–Alder reaction.
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