Ethyl 1-benzene-sulfonyl-2-[(E)-2-(2-methyl-phen-yl)ethen-yl]indole-3-carboxyl-ate.

In the title compound, C(26)H(23)NO(4)S, the phenyl, tolyl and ester groups make dihedral angles of 82.28 (5), 77.67 (6) and 8.52 (6)°, respectively, with the indole ring system. The S atom of the sulfonyl group is displaced by 0.1968 (4) Å from the indole mean plane. The mol-ecular structure is stabilized by weak intra-molecular C-H⋯O inter-actions. The crystal structure structure features short intramolecular C-H⋯O contacts and π-π stacking inter-actions between the phenyl and tolyl groups [centroid-centroid distance = 3.9448 (11) Å].