Crystallographic and spectroscopic characterization of two 1-phenyl-1H-imidazoles: 4-(1H-imidazol-1-yl)benzaldehyde and 1-(4-methoxy-phenyl)-1 H-imidazole.

The title compounds, C₁₀H₈N₂O, (I), and C₁₀H₁₀N₂O, (II), are two 1-phenyl-1H-imidazole derivatives, which differ in the substituent para to the imidazole group on the arene ring, i.e. a benzaldehyde, (I), and an anisole, (II). Both molecules pack with different motifs via similar weak C--H⋯N/O interactions and differ with respect to the angles between the mean planes of the imidazole and arene rings [24.58 (7)° in (I) and 43.67 (4)° in (II)]. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]