2-(6-Chloro-1H-indol-3-yl)acetonitrile.

In the title compound, C(10)H(7)ClN(2), the carbonitrile group is twisted away from the plane of the indole ring system [C(cy)-C(me)-C(ar)-C(ar) = -44.7 (8)°; cy = cyanide, me = methyl-ene and ar = aromatic]. In the crystal, N-H⋯N hydrogen bonds link the mol-ecules into C(7) chains propagating in [010]. Aromatic π-π stacking inter-actions [minimum centroid-centroid separation = 3.663 (3) Å] are also observed.