Crystal structure of 5-(1-benzo-furan-2-yl)-3-(4-methyl-phen-yl)-4,5-di-hydro-1,2-oxazol-5-ol.

In the title compound, C18H15NO3, the isoxazole moiety adopts a shallow envelope conformation, with the C atom bearing the OH group displaced by 0.148 (1) A from the mean plane through the other four atoms. The mean plane of this ring (all atoms) subtends dihedral angles of 87.19 (6) and 15.51 (7)° with the benzo­furan ring system (r.m.s. deviation = 0.007 A) and the 4-methylphenyl ring, respectively. In the crystal, mol­ecules are linked by O—H⋯N hydrogen bonds, generating [001] C(5) chains, with adjacent mol­ecules in the chain related by c-glide symmetry. Weak C—H⋯O inter­actions link the chains into a three-dimensional network.