(4<i>Z</i>)-4-Benzylidene-2-phenyl-1,3-oxazol-5(4<i>H</i>)-one

In the title compound, C(17)H(13)NO(2), the benzene ring is twisted slightly out of the plane of the oxazole ring to which it is attached [dihedral angle = 7.98 (8)°]. Similarly, there is a twist [dihedral angle = 5.50 (8)°] between the oxazole and phenyl rings that are linked via the C=C bond [1.348 (2) Å]; the conformation about the latter is Z. In the crystal, the presence of C-H⋯O, C-H⋯π and π-π inter-actions [centroid-centroid distance = 3.5259 (9) Å] link the mol-ecules into a three-dimensional architecture.