Abstract
The title compound, C(5)H(4)Cl(2)N(2), crystallizes with one mol-ecule in the asymmetric unit. In the crystal, the mol-ecular entities are assembled through strong N-H⋯N hydrogen bonding, forming supra-molecular chains extending along the b-axis direction. These chains are inter-connected by offset π-π stacking inter-actions and consolidated by halogen-π inter-actions. The mol-ecular inter-actions were qu-anti-fied by Hirshfeld surface analysis, showing the significant contributions of Cl⋯H/H⋯Cl (40.1%), H⋯H (15.7%) and N⋯H / H⋯N (13.1%) inter-actions. Energy framework analysis using the CE-B3LYP/6-31 G(d,p) basis set revealed that Coulombic inter-actions make a considerable contribution to the total energy and crystal packing.