1 Ordered Matter Science Research Center, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, People's Republic of China.
In the title mol-ecule, C(14)H(10)N(2)O, an intra-molecular O-H⋯N hydrogen bond contributes to the essential coplanarity of the two benzene rings, which form a dihedral angle of 6.04 (18)°.