title: 3-Amino-1H-1,2,4-triazole-5(4H)-thione-4,4'-bipyridine (1/1).
abstract: The title two-component mol-ecular crystal, C(10)H(8)N(2)·C(2)H(4)N(4)S, was obtained unexpectedly by reaction of Zn(NO(3))(2)·6H(2)O, NH(4)BF(4) with 3-amino-1,2,4-triazole-5-thione (3-AMT) and 4,4'-bipyridine in water. The dihedral angle between the pyridine rings in the 4,4'-bipyridine molecule is 17.00 (13)°. In the crystal, N-H⋯N and N-H⋯S hydrogen bonds between the components lead to the formation of a three-dimensional network. Furthermore, the structure features face-to-face π-π stacking inter-actions between the 4,4'-bipyridine and triazole rings, with a centroid-centroid distance of 2.976 (2) Å.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048,  People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Qi-Ming
authors.initials: QM
authors.lastname: Qiu
authors.forename: Yu-Han
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Xu
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Qiong-Hua
authors.initials: QH
authors.lastname: Jin
authors.forename: Cun-Lin
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Zhang