2,4,5-Tris(pyridin-4-yl)-4,5-dihydro-1,3-oxazole

Abstract

In the title compound, C18H14N4O, the molecules are disordered about a crystallographic twofold axis, leading to 50:50 disorder of the O- and N-atom sites within the oxazole ring. As a consequence, symmetry-related oxazole C - N and C - O bonds are averaged. The oxazole ring makes a dihedral angle of 6.920 (1)°with the pyridyl ring in the 2-position and 60.960 (2)°with the pyridyl rings in the 4- and 5-positions.