“…A review of antiinfective and anti-inflammatory chalcones (Nowakowska, 2007) and recent advances in therapeutic chalcones have been reported (Ni et al, 2004). The crystal structures of few related fluoro chalcones viz., 3-(3,4-dimethoxyphenyl)-1-(4fluorophenyl)prop-2-en-1-one (Butcher et al, 2006) (Jasinski, et al, 2009), (E)-3-(4fluorophenyl)-1-phenyl-2-propen-1-one (Jing, 2009), 1-(4-fluorophenyl)-3-(4-methoxyphenyl)prop-2-en-1-one (Harrison et al, 2006) and 3-(biphenyl-4-yl)-1-(4-fluorophenyl)prop-2-en-1-one (Sarojini et al, 2007) have been reported. In a continuation of our studies and in view of the importance of fluoro chalcones, we report the synthesis and crystal structure of a new chalcone, C 17 H 16 FNO, (I).…”