Benzene-1,3,5-triyl triacetate

The asymmetric unit of the title compound, C(12)H(12)O(6), contains two essentially identical mol-ecules related by a pseudo-inversion centre. The three acet-oxy groups in each mol-ecule are essentially planar and are tilted, in a regular propeller-style arrangement, with their normals oriented between 56.72 (12) and 76.35 (9)° from the normal to the mean plane of the central C(6) ring; in each mol-ecule the three carbonyl O atoms are on the same side of the C(6) ring, with the C(ring)-O-C-Me bonds in a trans conformation. The principal inter-molecular contacts appear to be C-H⋯π-ring inter-actions; each C(6) ring has such a contact to both faces of the ring; in addition, each mol-ecule has two inter-molecular C-H⋯O contacts with H⋯O distances less than 2.55 Å.