title: 3-Nitro-N-(8-quinol-yl)benzamide.
abstract: The title compound, C(16)H(11)N(3)O(3), crystallizes with two independent mol-ecules which are almost identical to each other in the asymmetric unit. The dihedral angle between the quinoline ring system and the nitro-benzene ring is 51.04 (9)° in one of the mol-ecules and 48.91 (9)° in the other. The crystal packing is stabilized by C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds and π-π inter-actions, with a centroid-centroid distance of 3.6010 (15) Å.
authors.affiliation: School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, China West Normal University, Nanchong 637002, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Gang
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lei
authors.forename: Lin-Hai
authors.initials: LH
authors.lastname: Jing
authors.forename: Li
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhou