1-Di-chloro-acetyl-t-3-isopropyl-r-2,c-6-di-phenyl-piperidin-4-one.

In the title compound, C22H23Cl2NO2, the piperidine ring adopts a twist-boat conformation. The phenyl rings substituted at the 2- and 6-positions of the piperidine ring subtend dihedral angles of 60.6†(2) and 84.2†(1)°, respectively, with the mean plane of the piperidine ring. In the crystal, mol-ecules are linked by C-H⋯O inter-actions into zigzag chains running along the c-axis direction.