4,4-Dimethyl-1-(3-nitrophenyl)pent-1-en-3-one

All the non-hydrogen atoms except one methyl C atom of the title compound, C13H15NO3, lie on a crystallographic mirror plane perpendicular to the b axis. The crystal packing is stabilized by two weak intermolecular C—H⋯O hydrogen bonds.

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