1,3-Diphenyl-8-trifluoromethyl-1H-pyrazolo[3,4-b]quinoline

The 1H-pyrazolo­[3,4-b]quinoline (PQ) core of the title mol­ecule, C23H14F3N3, is aromatic and essentially planar (r.m.s. deviation = 0.015 Å) and the two phenyl substituents at positions 1 and 3 are twisted relative to this fragment by 29.74 (7) and 25.63 (7)°, respectively. In the crystal, mol­ecules are arranged along the b axis into stacks via [pi]-[pi] inter­actions, with an inter­planar distance of the PQ core of 3.489 (4) Å