1 Key Laboratory of Anhui Educational Department, Anhui University of Technology, Maanshan 243002, People's Republic of China, and State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, People's Republic of China.
In the title compound, C(12)H(9)FN(2)O, the dihedral angle between the benzene ring and the pyridine ring is 4.35 (16)°. The mol-ecular conformation is stabilized by an intra-molecular O-H⋯N hydrogen bond.