2-Ferrocenyl-N-(6-methyl-2-pyrid­yl)benzamide

The title compound, [Fe(C(5)H(5))(C(18)H(15)N(2)O)], a product of the reaction of 2-ferrocenylbenzoic acid and 2-amino-6-methyl­pyridine, crystallizes with two dissimilar mol­ecules in the asymmetric unit. In one mol­ecule, the picoline amide group is directed away from the 2-ferrocenylbenzene moiety (anti) whereas in the other, these are proximate (syn). In the crystal structure, mol­ecules aggregate into dimers via cyclic, asymmetric N—H⋯N inter­actions with graph set R (2) (2)(8), and are further augmented via intra­molecular C—H⋯O=C and inter­dimer C—H⋯π(arene) inter­actions. Dimers are linked into chains along the [102] direction via weak C—H⋯O hydrogen bonds.