3-Amino-1-(4-methoxyphenyl)-9,10-dihydrophenanthrene-2,4-dicarbonitrile

In the title compound, C(23)H(17)N(3)O, significant deviations from planarity are evidenced. This is quanti-fied in the dihedral angles formed between the central amino-benzene ring and the benzene rings of the meth-oxy-benzene [67.93 (8)°] and 1,2-dihydro-naphthalene [28.27 (8)°] residues. In the crystal the amino-H atoms form hydrogen bonds to the meth-oxy-O atom and to one of the cyano-N atoms to generate a two-dimensional array with a zigzag topology that stacks along the ([Formula: see text][Formula: see text] 1) plane.