Crystal structure of 2-[(E)-2-(2-chloro-benzyl-idene)hydrazin-1-yl]-4-phenyl-1,3-thia-zole

The asymmetric unit of the title compound, C16H12ClN3S, contains two independent mol-ecules whose conformations differ primarily in the orientations of the phenyl and chloro-benzene rings with respect to the thia-zole ring. In the first mol-ecule, the dihedral angles are 3.0 (1) and 9.2 (1)°, respectively, for the phenyl ring and the chloro-benzene ring, while in the second mol-ecule, the corresponding angles are 18.6 (1) and 23.4 (1)°. In the crystal, the two independent mol-ecules are associated via complementary N-H⋯N hydrogen bonds into a dimer. These dimers are associated through weak C-H⋯Cl and C-H⋯S inter-actions into supra-molecular chains propagating along the a-axis direction.