4-Cyano-1-methyl-pyridinium nitrate.

Abstract

The title mol­ecular salt, C7H7N2 +·NO3 −, displays an inter­penetrating sheet structure parallel to a with each sheet containing nearly coplanar cations and anions, each ion being bis­ected by a crystallographic mirror plane. C—H⋯O hydrogen bonds involving both ring and methyl H atoms in addition to cation–cation C—H⋯N hydrogen bonds (ring H to cyano N) serve to link the sheets together. In each set of parallel layers, the cations and anions stack with short distances of 3.094 (2) (between aligned nitrate N and pyridine N atoms) and 3.057 (2) Å (between a nitrate O atom and the ring centroid). This motif is strikingly similar to the one that features in the isomeric salt 2-cyano-1-methyl­pyridinium nitrate.