title: tert-Butyl 2-benzoyl-2-methyl-propanoate.
abstract: 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, mol-ecules related by inversion symmetry are connected by weak C-H⋯O inter-actions into infinite chains. On one side of the mol-ecule there are two adjacent inter-actions between neighbouring mol-ecules 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 inter-actions to another adjacent mol-ecule involving the H atoms on the phenyl rings and the carbonyl O atoms of the ester functionality.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, 1400 Townsend Drive, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI 49931, USA.
authors.forename: Marshall W
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Logue
authors.forename: Rudy L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Luck
authors.forename: Nicklaus S
authors.initials: NS
authors.lastname: Maynard
authors.forename: Sandra S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Orlowski
authors.forename: Louis R
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: Pignotti
authors.forename: Annie L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Putman
authors.forename: Kelli M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Whelan