1-Methyl­piperazine-1,4-diium dipicrate

In the crystal structure of the title compound [systematic name: 1-methyl­piperazine-1,4-diium bis­(2,4,6-trinitro­phen­ol­ate)], C(5)H(14)N(2) (2+)·2C(6)H(2)N(3)O(7) (−), the ionic components are connected by relatively strong N—H⋯O hydrogen bonds into centrosymmetric six-membered conglomerates, which comprise two dications and four anions. Besides Coulombic inter­actions, only weak C—H⋯O inter­actions and some stacking between picrates (separation between the planes of ca. 3.4 Å but only a small overlapping) can be identified between these ‘building blocks’ of the crystal structure. The piperazine ring adopts a chair conformation with the methyl substituent in the equatorial position. In the picrate anions, the twist angles of the nitro groups depend on their positions relative to the phenolate O atom: it is much smaller for the NO(2) groups para to the C—O(−) group [15.23 (9)and 3.92 (14)°] than for the groups in the ortho positions [28.76 (13)–39.84 (11)°].