“…This paper deals with the structure of the title compound, (I), a cyano-piperidinone derivative with an ethyl acetate solvent molecule incorporated in the crystal structure. Recently, in our laboratory, we have elucidated the crystal structures of a few nitrosopiperidinone derivatives with varying substituents in the phenyl rings at the 2,6-positions of the nitroso-piperidinone ring and with unsubstituted phenyl rings at the 3,5-positions, namely the 4-methoxy (PIP1; Natarajan et al, 2005), 2-methyl (PIP2; Suresh et al, 2005a), 2-methoxy (PIP3; Suresh et al, 2005b) and 2-chloro (PIP4; Suresh et al, 2005) analogues of the title compound. Fig.…”