N-(2-Fluoro­phen­yl)cinnamamide

The title compound, C(15)H(12)FNO, was prepared by the reaction of cinnamoyl chloride with 4-fluoro­aniline and crystallizes with two mol­ecules A and B in the asymmetric unit. The two unique mol­ecules are closely similar and overlay with an r.m.s. deviation of 0.0819 Å. The fluoro­benzene and phenyl rings are inclined to one another at 73.89 (7) and 79.46 (7)°, respectively, in mol­ecules A and B. The amide C—N—C(O)—C portions of the mol­ecules are planar (r.m.s. deviations = 0.035 and 0.028 Å) and are inclined at 45.51 (9) and 47.71 (9), respectively, to the fluoro­benzene rings in mol­ecules A and B. The 2-fluoro­acetamide units and the benzene rings each adopt E configurations with respect to the C=C bonds. In the crystal structure, inter­molecular N—H⋯O hydrogen bonds augmented by weak C—H⋯π inter­actions link mol­ecules into rows in a head-to-tail fashion along a. Additional weak C—H⋯O contacts further stabilize the packing, forming a three-dimensional network stacked down a.