Crystal structure of 2,5-dimethyl-3-(3-methyl­phenyl­sulfon­yl)-1-benzo­furan

In the title compound, C(17)H(16)O(3)S, the dihedral angle between the plane of the benzo­furan ring system [r.m.s. deviation = 0.010 (1) Å] and that of the 3-methyl­phenyl ring is 79.09 (5)°. Intra­molecular C—H⋯O hydrogen bonds are observed. In the crystal, mol­ecules are connected into a chain along the c-axis direction by two different pairs of inversion-generated inter­actions: C—H⋯π hydrogen bonds between the methyl groups and the benzene rings of the 3-methyl­phenyl fragments and π–π inter­actions between the benzene and furan rings of neighbouring mol­ecules [centroid–centroid distance = 3.673 (2) Å].