2-Methylquinolin-8-yl 2-nitrobenzoate

Abstract

In the title compound, C17H12N2O4, the quinoline ring system is essentially planar. The ester group is twisted away from the quinoline ring system and nitrobenzene ring by 84.83 (3) and 80.56 (4)°, respectively. The crystal packing is stabilized by C—H...O intermolecular hydrogen bonds, and π–π interactions between the quinoline ring systems of inversion-related molecules, with a centroid–centroid distance of 3.6346 (6) Å.