{2-[(1H-Indol-3-yl­methyl­idene)amino]-4,5,6,7-tetra­hydro­benzo[b]thio­phen-3-yl}(phen­yl)methanone

The title compound, C(24)H(20)N(2)OS, crystallizes with two independent mol­ecules (A and B) in the asymmetric unit, in each of which the cyclo­hexene rings adopt half-chair conformations. The mean plane of the indole ring is twisted from those of the phenyl and thio­phene rings by 69.0 (7) and 8.3 (5)°, respectively, in mol­ecule A and by 65.4 (9) and 6.7 (5)°, respectively, in mol­ecule B. The dihedral angles between the mean planes of the phenyl and thio­phene rings are 63.0 (4) and 58.8 (9)° in mol­ecules A and B, respectively. In the crystal, N—H⋯O hydrogen bonds lead to the formation of an infinite chain along [101]. In addition, π–π stacking inter­actions are observed involving the thio­phene and pyrrole rings of the two mol­ecules, with a shortest inter­centroid distance of 3.468 (2) Å.