A second tricilinc polymorph of 6,6′-dieth­oxy-2,2′-[propane-1,2-diylbis(nitrilo­methyl­idyne)]diphenol

The title Schiff base compound, C(21)H(26)N(2)O(4), is a second triclinic polymorph of a previously reported room-temperature structure [Jia (2009 ▶). Acta Cryst. E65, o646]. Strong intra­molecular O—H⋯N hydrogen bonds generate S(6) ring motifs. Inter­molecular C—H⋯O inter­actions link neighbouring mol­ecules into dimers with an R (2) (2)(16) ring motif. The mean planes of the two benzene rings are almost perpendicular to each other, making a dihedral angle of 88.24 (5)°. An inter­esting feature of the crystal structure is the intermolecular short C⋯O [3.1878 (13) Å] contact which is shorter than the sum of the van der Waals radii of the relevant atoms. The crystal structure is further stabilized by inter­molecular C—H⋯π and π–π inter­actions [centroid–centroid distance = 3.7414 (6) Å]. The structure has a stereogenic centre but the space group is centrosymmetric, so the mol­ecule exists as a racemate.