title: Quinoxaline-2-carbonitrile.
abstract: In the title compound, C(9)H(5)N(3), the quinoxaline ring is essentially planar, with a maximum deviation of 0.012 (1) Å. Short inter-molecular distances between the centroids of the 2,3-dihydro-pyrazine and benzene rings [3.6490 (5) Å] indicate the existence of π⋯π inter-actions. In the crystal packing, the mol-ecules are linked via two pairs of inter-molecular C-H⋯N inter-actions, forming R(2) (2) (8) and R(2) (2) (10) ring motifs; these mol-ecules are further linked into a two-dimensional network parallel to (1 0 2) via another C-H⋯N inter-action.
authors.forename: Hoong-Kun
authors.initials: HK
authors.lastname: Fun
authors.forename: Ching Kheng
authors.initials: CK
authors.lastname: Quah
authors.forename: Annada C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Maity
authors.forename: Nirmal Kumar
authors.initials: NK
authors.lastname: Das
authors.forename: Shyamaprosad
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Goswami