2-Phenyl­biguanidinium hydrogen succinate methanol monosolvate

In the crystal of the title compound, C(8)H(12)N(5) (+)·C(4)H(5)O(4) (−)·CH(3)OH, the hydrogen succinate anions form infinite [010] chains via short, almost symmetrical, O⋯H⋯O hydrogen bonds. The 2-phenyl­biguanidium cations inter­connect these chains into layers lying parallel to the bc plane by way of N—H⋯O links. These planes only weakly inter­act in the direction of the a axis via C—H⋯π contacts between offset phenyl rings, leaving as much as 17% of the unit-cell volume accessible for the solvent. However, the methanol solvent mol­ecules could not be resolved due to extensive disorder and their assumed presence was removed from the overall scattering by the PLATON SQUEEZE procedure.