1-(Anthracen-1-yl)pyrrolidine-2,5-dione

In the mol­ecular structure of title compound, C(18)H(13)NO(2), the succinimide ring is orientated away from the plane of the anthracene moiety by 71.94 (4)°. The crystal structure features three different types of inter­molecular inter­actions, viz. C—H⋯O, C—H⋯π and π–π bonds. Mol­ecules along the b axis stack on each other as a result of π–π inter­actions which have a centroid–centroid distance of 3.6780 (15) Å, while C—H⋯π inter­actions are present between neigbouring stacks. Also, acting between the stacks are the C—H⋯O inter­actions between the aromatic H atoms of the anthracene and the O atoms of the succinimide.