Crystal structure of (Z)-4-methylbenzyl 3-[1-(5-methylpyridin-2-yl)ethylidene]dithiocarbazate

In the title di­thio­carbazate compound, C(17)H(19)N(3)S(2), the central CN(2)S(2) residue is essentially planar (r.m.s. deviation = 0.0288 Å) and forms dihedral angles of 9.77 (8) and 77.47 (7)° with the substituted-pyridyl and p-tolyl rings, respectively, indicating a highly twisted mol­ecule; the dihedral angle between the rings is 85.56 (8)°. The configuration about the C=N bond is Z, which allows for the formation of an intra­molecular N—H⋯N(pyrid­yl) hydrogen bond. The packing features tolyl-methyl-C—H⋯N(imine), pyridyl-C—H⋯π(tol­yl) and π–π inter­actions [between pyridyl rings with a distance = 3.7946 (13) Å], which generates jagged supra­molecular layers that stack along the b axis with no directional inter­actions between them.