Crystal structure, DFT and MEP study of (E)-2-[(2-hy-droxy-5-meth-oxy-benzyl-idene)amino]-benzo-nitrile.

The asymmetric unit of the title compound, C15H12N2O2, contains two crystallographically independent mol-ecules in which the dihedral angles between the benzene rings in each are 13.26 (5) and 7.87 (5)°. An intra-molecular O-H⋯N hydrogen bonds results in the formation of an S(6) ring motif. In the crystal, mol-ecules are linked by weak C-H⋯O and C-H⋯N hydrogen bonds, forming layers parallel to (011). In addition, π-π stacking inter-actions with centroid-centroid distances in the range 3.693 (2)-3.931 (2) Å complete the three-dimensional network.