Crystal structure of (E)-2-fluoro­benz­aldehyde (pyridin-2-yl)hydrazone

The title compound, C(12)H(10)FN(3), is approximately planar: the dihedral angles between the mean plane of the central N—N=C spacer unit and the fluoro­benzene and pyridine rings are 14.50 (13) and 4.85 (15)°, respectively, while the dihedral angle between the aromatic rings is 16.29 (6)°. The F atom lies at the same side of the mol­ecule as the N atom of the pyridine ring. In the crystal, inversion dimers linked by pairs of N—H⋯N hydrogen bonds generate R (2) (2)(8) loops. Mol­ecules related by translation in the a direction are linked by two π–π stacking inter­actions involving pairs of benzene rings and pairs of pyridine rings. In each case, the ring-centroid separation is 3.8517 (9) Å. Two chains of this type pass through each unit cell, but there are no direction-specific inter­actions between adjacent chains.