(Z)-2-Phenyl-3-pivaloyl-1,1-dipropylguanidine

In the title compound, C18H29N3O, a polysubstituted guanidine, the torsion angles indicate that the guanidine unit and the carbonyl group are almost perpendicular to one another [O—C—N—C= 7.40 (18), C—N—C—N= 97.21 (15) and 86.41 (13)°]. The crystal packing is stablized by intermolecular N—H...O hydrogen bonds, which link the molecules into a chain.