tert-Butyl 2-benzoyl-2-methylpropanoate

Abstract

The title compound, C15H20O3, is bent with a dihedral angle of 67.28 (9)° between the mean planes of the phenyl ring and a group encompassing the ester functionality (O=C—O—C). In the crystal, molecules related by inversion symmetry are connected by weak C—H...O interactions into infinite chains. On one side of the molecule there are two adjacent interactions between neighbouring molecules involving the H atoms of methyl groups from the dimethyl groups and the O atoms of the ketone; on the other side, there are also two interactions to another adjacent molecule involving the H atoms on the phenyl rings and the carbonyl O atoms of the ester functionality.