title: 2-Phenyl-1H-imidazole.
abstract: In the title compound, C(9)H(8)N(2), a mirror plane lies perpendicular to the phenyl and imidazole rings and passes through the bridging C-C bond, so that the imidazole ring is disordered over two sites about the mirror plane with the equal site occupancy; the asymmetric unit contains one half-mol-ecule. In the crystal, adjacent mol-ecules are linked via N-H⋯N hydrogen bonds.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Shahid Beheshti University, G. C., Evin, Tehran 1983963113,  Iran.
authors.forename: Maryam
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mehdizadeh Barforoush
authors.forename: Soheila
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Naderi
authors.forename: Ali Reza
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Ghanbarpour
authors.forename: Alireza
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Azhdari Tehrani
authors.forename: Hamid Reza
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Khavasi