Crystal structure of ()--[(anthracen-9-yl)methyl-idene]--phenyl-benzene-1,4-di-amine.

The title compound, CHN, a Schiff base synthesized a condensation reaction between anthracene-9-carbaldehyde and -phenyl--phenyl-enedi-amine, crystallizes with three independent mol-ecules in the asymmetric unit. The three mol-ecules have slightly varying overall conformations, all having conformations with respect to the C=N bond. In the crystal, the packing features N-H⋯N hydrogen bonds, which connect mol-ecules into chains extending along the -axis direction, inter-linked by C-H⋯π inter-actions (minimum H⋯ = 2.65 Å) into sheets lying parallel to (001).