(1H-Benzimidazol-1-yl)methanol

Abstract

In the title compound, C 8H 8N 2O, the N - CH 2 and CH 2 - O bond lengths can be correlated to the manifestation of an anomeric effect in the N - CH 2 - O moiety. In the crystal, intermolecular O - H⋯N hydrogen bonds link the molecules into zigzag chains, with graph-set motif C(6), parallel to [001]. These chains are further linked into sheets by weak nonclassical C - H⋯O hydrogen bonds.