1 Department of Chemistry, Anhui University, Hefei 230039, People's Republic of China, and Key Laboratory of Functional Inorganic Materials Chemistry, Hefei 230039, People's Republic of China.
In the title mol-ecule, C(18)H(20)IN, the tricyclic carbazole system is essentially planar with the two outer rings forming a dihedral angle of 0.43 (8)°. The crystal packing exhibits no short inter-molecular contacts.