{2-[(1,3-Benzo­thia­zol-2-yl)meth­oxy]-5-fluoro­phen­yl}(4-chloro­phen­yl)methanone

The asymmetric unit of the title compound, C(21)H(13)ClFNO(2)S, contains two independent mol­ecules with similar conformations. In the mol­ecules, the thia­zole ring is essentially planar [maximum atomic deviations = 0.014 (4) and 0.023 (5) Å] and is oriented with respect to the fluoro­phenyl ring and chloro­phenyl rings at 9.96 (18) and 70.39 (18)° in one mol­ecule and at 7.50 (18) and 68.43 (18)° in the other; the dihedral angles between the fluoro­phenyl and chloro­phenyl rings are 64.9 (2) and 64.6 (2)°, respectively. Inter­molecular C—H⋯O and C—H⋯F hydrogen bonds stabilize the three-dimensional supra­molecular architecture. Weak C—H⋯π and π–π inter­actions [centroid–centroid distance = 3.877 (3) Å] lead to a criss-cross mol­ecular packing along the c axis.