2-Amino-6-(dimethyl-amino)pyridine-3,5-dicarbonitrile

Acta Crystallogr Sect E Struct Rep Online. 2012 May 1;68(Pt 5):o1532. doi: 10.1107/S1600536812017278. Epub 2012 Apr 25.

Abstract

The title compound, C(9)H(9)N(5), is slightly twisted from planarity, with a maximum deviation of 0.0285 (13) Å from the pyridine plane for the C atom bearing the amino group. The cyano groups are on different sides of the pyridine plane, with C- and N-atom deviations of 0.072 (3)/0.124 (4) and -0.228 (4)/-0.409 (5) Å from the pyridine plane. In the crystal, N-H⋯N and C-H⋯N hydrogen bonds connect the mol-ecules into zigzag chains running along the c axis.