“…In 3-aminopyridine, which also forms single N(3)-H...N(1) bonds, the N...N distance is 3.123/~. Provided that substituents on the 2-aminopyridine ring exert more effect ortho and para than meta, the above line of reasoning explains why 2-amino-3-nitropyridine (Destro, Pilati & Simonetta, 1975), 2-amino-4-methylpyridine (Kvick & Noordik, 1977) and 2-amino-5-chloropyridine (Kvick & Back6us, 1974;Kvick, Thomas & Koetzle, 1976) have shorter N...N contacts [3.009, 2.996 (2) and 3.058 (3)A, respectively[ than 2-aminopyridine while 2-amino-5-methylpyridine (Nahringbauer & Kvick, 1977) has a longer one [3.113 (2) A]. and the 'natural' state of the isolated calculations and parameters describing twist and molecule has pyramidal amino groups.…”