2-(4-Meth­oxy-1H-indol-3-yl)acetonitrile

In the title compound, C₁₁H₁₀N₂O, 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 = methyl­ene, ar = aromatic], whereas the meth­oxy C atom is almost coplanar with the ring system [displacement = 0.014 (5) Å]. In the crystal, N—H...N hydrogen bonds link the mol­ecules into C(7) chains propagating in [100].