title: 8-(4-Nitro-benz-yloxy)quinoline.
abstract: In the title compound, C(16)H(12)N(2)O(3), the planar quinoline ring system [maximum deviation = 0.025 (3) Å] is oriented at a dihedral angle of 61.76 (7)° with respect to the benzene ring. In the crystal structure, inter-molecular C-H⋯O inter-actions link the mol-ecules into chains parallel to the b axis. π-π contacts between the quinoline rings [centroid-centroid distance = 3.623 (1) Å] may further stabilize the structure.
authors.affiliation: Ordered Matter Science Research Center, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Yuan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Yong Hua
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Li