The two aromatic rings of each of the four independent molecules in the asymmetric unit of the title compound, C(11)H(9)ClN(2), are approximately coplanar; the four mol-ecules are arranged into two amino-pyridyl N-H⋯N hydrogen-bonded pairs. The structure has a 15% twin component related by a twofold rotation about [100].
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