8H-Chromeno[2′,3′:4,5]imidazo[2,1-a]isoquinoline

The title compound, C18H12N2O, comprises two aromatic fragments, viz., imidazo[2,1-a]isoquinoline and benzene, linked by oxygen and methyl­ene bridges. Despite the absence of a common conjugative system within the mol­ecule, it adopts an essentially planar conformation with an r.m.s. deviation of 0. 036 Å. In the crystal, due to this structure, mol­ecules form stacks along the b axis by π⋯π stacking inter­actions, with shortest C⋯C distances in the range 3.340 (4)–3.510 (4) Å. The mol­ecules are bound by inter­molecular C—H⋯O inter­actions within the stacks and C—H⋯π inter­actions between the stacks