Tetra-O-4-methyl-phenyl-sulfonyl-penta-erythritol.

In the title mol-ecule (systematic name: methane-tetra-yltetra-methyl-ene tetra-p-toluene-sulfonate), C(33)H(36)O(12)S(4), the central C atom and the S atoms exhibit distorted tetra-hedral configurations. The aromatic rings in opposite arms are nearly parallel to each other, with a dihedral angle of 10.26†(8) or 3.45†(9)°. The mol-ecules are linked into a two-dimensional network parallel to the bc plane by weak C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds, π-π [centroid-centroid distance = 3.5806†(12)†à ] and S-O⋯π [O⋯centroid = 3.1455†(15)†à and S-O⋯centroid = 122.41†(7)°] inter-molecular inter-actions. Intramolecular C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds are also present.