2,6‐Di­phenyl­pyridine‐4‐carboxyl­ic acid

The distinctive feature of the crystal structure of 2,6‐di­phenyl­pyridine‐4‐carboxyl­ic acid, C₁₈H₁₃NO₂, is the formation of intermolecular O—H?O hydrogen bonds that lead to the formation of centrosymmetric cyclic dimers with R(8) topology. Molecules related by translation along the b axis exhibit strong π–π stacking of aromatic rings, with an average interplanar distance of 3.3 Å.