title: 2-Ferrocenyl-N-(6-methyl-2-pyrid-yl)benzamide.
abstract: The title compound, [Fe(C(5)H(5))(C(18)H(15)N(2)O)], a product of the reaction of 2-ferrocenylbenzoic acid and 2-amino-6-methyl-pyridine, crystallizes with two dissimilar mol-ecules in the asymmetric unit. In one mol-ecule, the picoline amide group is directed away from the 2-ferrocenylbenzene moiety (anti) whereas in the other, these are proximate (syn). In the crystal structure, mol-ecules aggregate into dimers via cyclic, asymmetric N-H⋯N inter-actions with graph set R(2) (2)(8), and are further augmented via intra-molecular C-H⋯O=C and inter-dimer C-H⋯π(arene) inter-actions. Dimers are linked into chains along the [102] direction via weak C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds.
authors.forename: John F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Gallagher
authors.forename: Steven
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Alley
authors.forename: Alan J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Lough