Crystal structure of (E)-1-methyl-2-[2-(2-methoxphen­yl)ethen­yl]-4-nitro-1H-imidazole

In the asymmetric unit of the title compound, C(13)H(13)N(3)O(3), the 2-(2-methoxphen­yl)ethenyl unit is connected to the methyl-nitro­imidazole 1-methyl-4-nitro-1H-imidazole moiety. The mol­ecule is quasi-planar and the planes of the two rings form a dihedral angle of 0.92 (11)°. The crystal packing can be described as layers parallel to the (011) plane, stabilized by inter­molecular C—H⋯O hydrogen bonding, resulting in the formation of an infinite three-dimensional network linking these layers. Strong π–π stacking inter­actions are observed, viz. benzene–benzene, imidazole–imidazole and benzene–imidazole rings, with centroid–centroid distances of 3.528 (2), 3.457 (2) and 3.544 (2) Å, respectively. Intensity statistics indicated twinning by non-merohedry, with refined weighs of the twin components of 0.3687:0.6313.