Hexa­benzyl­benzene

The title compound, (I), crystallizes unsolvated in the triclinic space group P\overline 1, with one mol­ecule per unit cell and a centrosymmetric ababab conformation (a and b denote side-chain units projecting, respectively, above and below the plane of the aromatic core), which possesses non-crystallographic \overline 3 (S6) symmetry. The CH2 C atoms, in cyclic order, deviate from the mean plane of the central benzene ring by 0.042, −0.029, 0.050, −0.042, 0.029 and -0.050 A (r.m.s. deviation 0.041 A).