(2<i>E</i>)-1-(2,5-Dimethylthiophen-3-yl)-3-(3-nitrophenyl)prop-2-en-1-one

In the title compound, C(15)H(13)NO(3)S, the benzene ring and the five-membered heterocyclic ring are oriented at a dihedral angle of 12.00 (6)°. In the crystal, C-H⋯O inter-actions generate two types of cyclic motifs, R(2) (2)(14) and R(2) (2)(26), connecting the mol-ecules into tapes extending along [101]. In addition, there are π-π stacking inter-actions between the benzene and thio-phene rings with centroid-centroid distances of 3.7263 (14) and 3.7487 (14) Å.