Ethyl 1-tert-butyl-5-phenyl-1H-pyrazole-4-carboxyl-ate.

In the title compound, C(16)H(20)N(2)O(2), the pyrazole ring is essentially planar [maximum deviation = 0.008 (2) Å] and is inclined at an angle of 82.82 (10)° with respect to the phenyl ring. The crystal packing is consolidated by pairs of inter-molecular C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds, which link the mol-ecules into centrosymmetric dimers stacked along the a axis.