2-Azido-1-(4-nitro-phen-yl)ethanone.

In the title compound, C(8)H(6)N(4)O(3), the ketone [C-C(=O)-C] and nitro groups are tilted with respect to the benzene ring by 18.92 (6) and 24.11 (15)°, respectively. In the crystal, mol-ecules are linked into inter-woven chains running parallel to the [100] direction by C-H⋯N hydrogen bonds and weak π-π stacking inter-actions, with centroid-centroid separations of 3.897 (3) Å.