title: 2-(4-Meth-oxy-1H-indol-3-yl)acetonitrile.
abstract: In the title compound, C(11)H(10)N(2)O, the cyanide group is twisted away from the indole-ring plane [C(cy)-C(me)-C(ar)-C(ar) = 70.7 (2)°; cy = cyanide, me = methyl-ene, ar = aromatic], whereas the meth-oxy C atom is almost coplanar with the ring system [displacement = 0.014 (5) Å]. In the crystal, N-H⋯N hydrogen bonds link the mol-ecules into C(7) chains propagating in [100].
authors.affiliation: Ordered Matter Science Research Center, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096,  People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Yong-Hong
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: Mei-Ling
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Pan
authors.forename: Yang-Hui
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Luo