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organic compounds
In the title compound, C24H19NO, the methoxy group attached at C3 avoids steric hindrance with the neighbouring phenyl rings by emerging almost orthogonally from the pyridine ring [C2-C3-O31-C31 - 95.3 (2)°]. The phenyl rings show a disrotatory arrangement and the angles between them and the pyridyl ring range from 22.66 (6) to 47.91 (5)°, whereas these angles differ by only approximately 6° in 2,4,6-triphenylpyridine.