title: Crystal structure of (Z)-4-methylbenzyl 3-[1-(5-methylpyridin-2-yl)ethylidene]dithiocarbazate.
abstract: In the title di-thio-carbazate compound, C17H19N3S2, the central CN2S2 residue is essentially planar (r.m.s. deviation = 0.0288 Å) and forms dihedral angles of 9.77 (8) and 77.47 (7)° with the substituted-pyridyl and p-tolyl rings, respectively, indicating a highly twisted mol-ecule; the dihedral angle between the rings is 85.56 (8)°. The configuration about the C=N bond is Z, which allows for the formation of an intra-molecular N-H⋯N(pyrid-yl) hydrogen bond. The packing features tolyl-methyl-C-H⋯N(imine), pyridyl-C-H⋯π(tol-yl) and π-π inter-actions [between pyridyl rings with a distance = 3.7946 (13) Å], which generates jagged supra-molecular layers that stack along the b axis with no directional inter-actions between them.
authors: Department of Chemistry, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Malaysia.
authors: Thahira Begum S A
authors: TB
authors: Ravoof
authors: Centre for Crystalline Materials, Faculty of Science and Technology, Sunway University, 47500 Bandar Sunway, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia.
authors: Edward R T
authors: ER
authors: Tiekink
authors: Department of Chemistry, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Malaysia.
authors: Siti Aminah
authors: SA
authors: Omar
authors: Department of Chemistry, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Malaysia.
authors: Sharifa Zaithun
authors: SZ
authors: Begum
authors: Department of Chemistry, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Malaysia.
authors: Mohamed I M
authors: MI
authors: Tahir
keywords: crystal structure; di­thio­carbazate; hydrogen bonding