N-(2,6-Dimethyl-phen-yl)-4-methyl-benzamide.

In the mol-ecular structure of the title compound, C(16)H(17)NO, the two aromatic rings are close to orthogonal to each other [dihedral angle 78.8 (1)°], while the central -NH-C(=O)- amide core is nearly coplanar with the benzoyl ring, forming a dihedral angle of 3.5 (2)°. Inter-molecular N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds in the crystal structure link the mol-ecules into infinite chains running along the c axis of the crystal, and a C-H⋯O interaction also occurs.