Crystal structure of phenyl-β-methyl-pyridyl hydroxyimide,C13H12N2O

Phenyl-β-methyl-pyridyl hydroxyimide crystallizes in the form of prismatic crystals in the space group P 2₁ with Z = 4, a = 11.401(4) Å, b = 7.793(3) Å, c = 12.766(4) Å and β = 92.97°. The structure was solved by direct methods and was refined by block diagonal least squares calculation to a final value of 0.05. The pyridyl ring in molecule (II) is slightly distorted, all the other rings as expected are planar.