Molecules of N‐(4′‐iodophenylsulfonyl)‐4‐nitroaniline, 4‐O2NC6H4NHSO2C6H4I‐4′ (1), are linked by three‐centre I⋯O2N interactions into chains and these chains are linked into a three‐dimensional framework by C—H⋯O hydrogen bonds. In the isomeric N‐(4′‐nitrophenylsulfonyl)‐4‐iodoaniline, 4‐IC6H4NHSO2C6H4NO2‐4′ (2), the chains generated by the I⋯O2N interactions are again linked into a three‐dimensional framework by C—H⋯O hydrogen bonds. Molecules of N,N‐bis(3′‐nitrophenylsulfonyl)‐4‐iodoaniline, 4‐IC6H4N(SO2C6H4NO2‐3′)2 (3), lie across twofold rotation axes in space group C2/c and they are linked into chains by paired I⋯O=S interactions: these chains are linked into sheets by a C—H⋯O hydrogen bond, and the sheets are linked into a three‐dimensional framework by aromatic π⋯π stacking interactions. In N‐(4′‐iodophenylsulfonyl)‐3‐nitroaniline, 3‐O2NC6H4NHSO2C6H4I‐4′ (4), there are rings formed by hard N—H⋯O=S hydrogen bonds and rings formed by two‐centre I⋯nitro interactions, which together generate a chain of fused rings: the combination of a C—H⋯O hydrogen bond and aromatic π⋯π stacking interactions links the chains into sheets. Molecules of N‐(4′‐iodophenylsulfonyl)‐4‐methyl‐2‐nitroaniline, 4‐CH3‐2‐O2NC6H3NHSO2C6H4I‐4′ (5), are linked by N—H⋯O=S and C—H⋯O(nitro) hydrogen bonds into a chain containing alternating and rings, but there are no I⋯O interactions of either type. There are two molecules in the asymmetric unit of N‐(4′‐iodophenylsulfonyl)‐2‐nitroaniline, 2‐O2NC6H4NHSO2C6H4I‐4′ (6), and the combination of an I⋯O=S interaction and a hard N—H⋯O(nitro) hydrogen bond links the two types of molecule to form a cyclic, centrosymmetric four‐component aggregate. C—H⋯O hydrogen bonds link these four‐molecule aggregates to form a molecular ladder. Comparisons are made with structures retrieved from the Cambridge Structural Database.