“…Crystals of the title compound, (I), do not exhibit second-order nonlinear optical properties as they crystallize in a centrosymmetric space group. In view of the interest in the behavior of chalcone and its derivatives, a systematic study of their synthesis and single-crystal structure determinations has been carried out Ng, Shettigar et al, 2006;Patil, Ng et al, 2006;Patil, Teh et al, 2006;Radha Krishna et al, 2005;Sathiya Moorthi, Chinnakali, Nanjundan, Santhi & Fun, 2005;Sathiya Moorthi, Chinnakali, Nanjundan, Radhika et al, 2005;Sathiya Moorthi, Chinnakali, Nanjundan, Selvam et al, 2005;Sathiya Moorthi, Chinnakali, Nanjundan, Unnithan et al, 2005;Teh et al, 2006;Uchida et al, 1995). We report here the synthesis and crystal stucture of (I) (Fig.…”