Crystal structure and Hirshfeld surface analysis of 4-{[(anthracen-9-yl)meth-yl]amino}-benzoic acid di-methyl-formamide monosolvate.

The title compound, C22H17NO2·C3H7NO, was synthesized by condensation of an aromatic aldehyde with a secondary amine and subsequent reduction. It was crystallized from a di-methyl-formamide solution as a monosolvate, C22H17NO2·C3H7NO. The aromatic mol-ecule is non-planar with a dihedral angle between the mean planes of the aniline moiety and the methyl anthracene moiety of 81.36 (8)°. The torsion angle of the Car-yl-CH2-NH-Car-yl backbone is 175.9 (2)°. The crystal structure exhibits a three-dimensional supra-molecular network, resulting from hydrogen-bonding inter-actions between the carb-oxy-lic OH group and the solvent O atom as well as between the amine functionality and the O atom of the carb-oxy-lic group and additional C-H⋯π inter-actions. Hirshfeld surface analysis was performed to qu-antify the inter-molecular inter-actions.