title: [2-(4-Methylbenzoyl)phenyl](4-methylphenyl)methanone.
abstract: The asymmetric unit of the title compound, C(22)H(18)O(2), contains one half-mol-ecule, the complete mol-ecule being generated by the operation of a crystallographic twofold rotation axis. The carbonyl group and the two C atoms attached to it forms inter-planar angles of 23.67 (7)° with the methyl-substituted phenyl ring and 50.74 (8)° with the central ring. In the crystal, mol-ecules are linked into infinite chains along the b-axis direction by inter-molecular C-H⋯O inter-actions, generating R(2) (2)(10) graph-set motifs.
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