Diphenyl­methyl benzoate

In the title mol­ecule, C₂₀H₁₆O₂, the dihedral angle between the phenyl rings of the diphenyl­methyl group is 68.3 (2)°. The benzoate group is essentially planar, with a maximum deviation of 0.017 (2) Å for the carbonyl O atom, and the two phenyl rings are twisted by 27.5 (4) and 85.6 (9)° from this plane. In the crystal, weak C—H...O hydrogen bonds link mol­ecules along [100].