(E)-1-Phenyl­ethanone semicarbazone

In the title compound, C(9)H(11)N(3)O, the benzene ring is disordered over two positions with refined occupancies of 0.922 (5) and 0.078 (5). The program PLATON [Spek (2009 ▶). Acta Cryst. D65, 148–155] recommends the solution in the space group C2/m with a = 7.3050 (3), b = 6.6745 (2), c = 18.3853 (6) Å and β = 96.986 (2)°. However, the large number of non-extinct reflections needed to be ignored if C2/m is chosen suggested that the space group is incorrect, even though the R values are lower than that for P2(1)/c. The semicarbazone group is essentially planar, with a maximum deviation of 0.046 (1) Å for one of the N atoms. The mean plane of the semicarbazone group forms dihedral angles of 33.61 (8) and 39.1 (9)° with the benzene ring of the major and minor components, respectively. In the crystal structure, mol­ecules are linked by inter­molecular N—H⋯O hydrogen bonds into extended chains along the c axis. The crystal structure is further stabilized by weak inter­molucular C—H⋯π inter­actions.