Synthesis and Crystal Structure of 2-(1-Methyl-1H-3-indolyl)nicotinonitrile

Abstract

The crystal structure of 2-(1-methyl-1H-3-indolyl)nicotinonitrile C₁₅H₁₁N₃ was determined. The compound crystallizes from a methanol and chloroform solvent mixture in the triclinic system, space group P1 with the following unit-cell parameters: a = 7.018(1), b = 8.399(1), c = 20.362(3)Å, α = 90.731(4)°, β = 90.149(5)°, γ = 103.467(6)° , Z = 4, V = 1167.1(3)ų. The crystal structure was solved by direct methods and refined by full-matrix least squares to a final R-value of 0.058 with 4338 unique reflections.