Crystal structure of 2,6-di­amino­pyridinium chloride

The asymmetric unit of the title salt, C5H8N3+·Cl−, comprises one half of the 2,6-di­amino­pyridinium cation (the other half being completed by the application of mirror symmetry) and one Cl− counter-anion, also located on the mirror plane. The amino N atom shows a significant pyramidalization, with a dihedral angle of 30.4 (14)° between the least-squares planes of the amino group and the non-H atoms of the 2,6-di­amino­pyridinium moiety. In the crystal, the cationic mol­ecules and Cl− counter-anions are arranged in sheets parallel to (001) consisting of alternating polar and non-polar parts associated with the the Cl− anions, pyridinium and amino moieties, and the pyridine rings, respectively. N—H⋯Cl inter­actions within the polar part, as well as slipped π–π inter­actions in the non-polar part, help to establish the three-dimensional network.