Redetermination of pyridine-4-carbonitrile–chloranilic acid (1/1) at 180 K

In the crystal structure of the title compound, C(6)H(4)N(2)·C(6)H(2)Cl(2)O(4), two chloranilic acid (systematic name: 2,5-dichloro-3,6-dihydr­oxy-1,4-benzoquinone) mol­ecules are connected by O—H⋯O hydrogen bonds to form a dimeric unit. The pyridine-4-carbonitrile mol­ecules are linked on both sides of the dimer via N⋯H⋯O hydrogen bonds to give a centrosymmetric 2:2 complex of pyridine-4-carbonitrile and chloranilic acid. The H atom in the N⋯H⋯O hydrogen bond is disordered over two positions with approximately equal occupancies. The pyridine ring makes a dihedral angle of 61.54 (14)° with the chloranilic acid plane. The 2:2 units are further linked by inter­molecular C—H⋯O and C—H⋯Cl hydrogen bonds. This determination presents a siginficantly higher precision crystal structure than the previously published structure [Tomura & Yamasshita (2008 ▶). X-ray Struct. Anal. Online, 24, x31–x32].