Abstract
The asymmetric unit of the title compound, C20H20N2O3·H2O, contains two independent mol-ecules (A and B), with similar conformations and two independent water mol-ecules. In the crystal, N-H⋯O and Owater-H⋯O hydrogen bonds link all moieties into two crystallographically independent kinds of sheets parallel to the ac plane. These independent sheets, each containing either A or B mol-ecules, are further alternately stacked along the b axis and inter-connected via C-H⋯πar-yl inter-actions.