title: 2,2',2''-[Nitrilo-tris(methyl-ene-p-phenyl-ene)]tribenzonitrile.
abstract: In the title compound, C(42)H(30)N(4), the conformations of the three wings of the mol-ecule are not similar to each other as the torsion angles between the planes of the benzene rings are significantly different. In addition to van der Waals inter-actions, the crystal structure is stabilized only by intra-molecular C-H⋯N hydrogen bonds.
authors.affiliation: Ordered Matter Science Research Center, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Li-Zhuang
authors.initials: LZ
authors.lastname: Chen