2-(1H-Indol-3-yl)acetohydrazide

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 inter­actions link the mol­ecules into chains along the a axis. The overall effect of these contacts is a three-dimensional network structure with mol­ecules stacked along the b-axis direction.