4-methyl-3H-pyrrolo[2,3-c]quinoline

The title compound, C12H10N2, is a new marine natural product which was isolated for the first time from a novel marine gliding bacterium. The asymmetric unit contains a pair of achiral molecules. Both the molecules are essentially planar and they form a dihedral angle of 83.81 (3)degrees. In the crystal structure, the molecules exist as N-H center dot center dot center dot N hydrogen-bonded tetramers.