title: 2-(1H-Indol-3-yl)acetohydrazide.
abstract: In the title compound C(10)H(11)N(3)O, the mean plane of the indole ring system (r.m.s. deviation 0.0131 Å) subtends a dihedral angle of 87.27 (5)° to the almost planar acetohydrazide substituent (r.m.s. deviation 0.0291 Å). In the crystal, bifurcated N-H⋯(O,N) and N-H⋯N hydrogen bonds involving the pyrrole N-H grouping combine to form zigzag chains along a. Additional N-H⋯O contacts from the hydrazide N-H group augmented by C-H⋯π inter-actions link the mol-ecules into chains along the a axis. The overall effect of these contacts is a three-dimensional network structure with mol-ecules stacked along the b-axis direction.
authors.affiliation: Materials Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, GC University, Lahore 54000,  Pakistan.
authors.forename: Lala Rukh
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: Sidra
authors.forename: Islam Ullah
authors.initials: IU
authors.lastname: Khan
authors.forename: Muhammad
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yar
authors.forename: Jim
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Simpson