“…The literature review reveals that benzothiazoles and their derivatives show considerable activity including potent inhibition of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) replication by HIV-1 protease inhibition (Al-Soud et al, 2006), antitumor (Kini et al, 2007), anthelmintic (Munirajasekhar et al, 2011) analgesic and antiinflammatory (Gurupadayya et al, 2008), antimalarial (Bowyer et al, 2007), antifungal (Mittal et al, 2007), anticandidous (Rocío Pozas et al, 2005) as well as various CNS activities (Rana et al, 2008). The structure of 2-[5-(4methoxyphenyl)-3-phenyl-4,5-dihydro-1H-pyrazol-1-yl]-6-methyl-1,3-benzothiazole has been reported by Fun et al (2011). The present work describes the synthesis and crystal structure of the title compound, 1-(6-fluorobenzo-1,3-thiazol-2-yl)-3-phenyl-1H-pyrazole-4-carbaldehyde which was prepared from the reaction of 1-(6-fluoro-1,3-benzothiazol-2yl)-2-(1-phenylethylidene)hydrazine treated with Vilsmeier-Haack reagent to obtain crystals of the title compound.…”