title: (1H-Benzimidazol-1-yl)methanol.
abstract: In the title compound, C(8)H(8)N(2)O, the N-CH(2) and CH(2)-O bond lengths can be correlated to the manifestation of an anomeric effect in the N-CH(2)-O moiety. In the crystal, inter-molecular O-H⋯N hydrogen bonds link the mol-ecules into zigzag chains, with graph-set motif C(6), parallel to [001]. These chains are further linked into sheets by weak nonclassical C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds.
authors.forename: Augusto
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rivera
authors.forename: Mauricio
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Maldonado
authors.forename: Jaime
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ríos-Motta
authors.forename: Karla
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Fejfarová
authors.forename: Michal
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dušek