(E)-1-(2,4-Dinitro­phen­yl)-2-[1-(3-meth­oxy­phen­yl)ethyl­idene]hydrazine

There are two crystallographically independent mol­ecules in the asymmetric unit of the title compound, C(15)H(14)N(4)O(5), with different conformations for the meth­oxy groups. The mol­ecules are both slightly twisted, the dihedral angles between two benzene rings being 8.37 (18)° in one and 7.31 (18)° in the other. In both mol­ecules, the two nitro groups are essentially coplanar with their bound benzene ring, with the r.m.s. deviation of the dinitro­benzene plane being 0.0310 (3) Å in one mol­ecule and 0.0650 (3) Å in the other. In each mol­ecule, an intra­molecular N—H⋯O hydrogen bond generates an S(6) ring motif. In the crystal, mol­ecules are linked by weak C—H⋯O inter­actions and stacked along the a axis through π–π inter­actions, with centroid–centroid distances of 3.651 (2) and 3.721 (2) Å. The crystal studied was a non-merohedral twin with a refined minor component of 20.1 (3)%.