tert-Butyl 2-benzoyl-2-methyl­propanoate

The title compound, C(15)H(20)O(3), 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.