5,6-Di-methyl-benzo[d][1,3]oxatellurole.

The structure of the title compound, C(9)H(10)OTe, at 100†K has ortho-rhom-bic (P2(1)2(1)2) symmetry with two independent mol-ecules in the asymmetric unit (Z' = 2). The mol-ecules are folded along their Te⋯O axes, with their Te-C-O planes angled at an average of 25.1° with respect to the remaining non-H atoms, which are almost coplanar (average deviation from planarity = 0.04†à ). A Hirshfeld plot shows weak inter-molecular inter-actions between the two Te atoms located in each asymmetric mol-ecule, with a Te⋯Te distance of 3.7191†(4)†à . The structure is strongly pseudosymmetric to the space group Pccn with Z' = 1. The crystal chosen for data collection was found to be was an inversion twin.