2-Trifluoromethyl-1H-benzimidazole

The asymmetric unit of the title compound, C8H5F3N2, consists of two half-mol­ecules, one lies on a mirror plane and the other is generated by twofold rotation symmetry, with the axis running through the trifluoro­methyl C atom and the attached benzimidazole C atom. The two 2-trifluoro­methyl-1H-benzimidazole mol­ecules are connected by N—H⋯N hydrogen bonds involving the disordered NH H atoms into chains running parallel to the c axis. One of the trifluoro­methyl groups is disordered over two orientations of equal occupancy.