The structure of pyridin-4-ylmethyl 4-nitrobenzoate was determined by the single-crystal X-ray diffraction method. The compound crystallized in a monoclinic system, P21/n, and the unit cell parameters are, a = 9.981(2), b = 12.347(3), c = 10.161(3)Å, β = 101.450(9), Z = 4, V = 1227.3(5)Å3. The crystal structure was solved by intrinsic phasing and refined to final values of R1 = 0.0451 and wR2 = 0.1393