Abstract: | In 2‐trifluoromethyl‐4‐nitroaniline, C7H5F3N2O2, (I), the molecules lie across a mirror plane in space group Pnma. The molecules are linked by paired N—H?O hydrogen bonds to form a C(8)[R(6)] chain of rings, pairs of which are linked into a molecular ladder by a single C—H?O hydrogen bond. The isomeric 3‐trifluoromethyl‐4‐nitroaniline, (II), has Z′ = 2 in space group P21/c. Each molecule is linked to four others by N—H?O hydrogen bonds to form sheets built from alternating R(12) and R(32) rings. |