title: Anthracene-1-carboxylic acid.
abstract: The title compound, C15H10O2, was found to crystallize in the centrosymmetric space group P2(1)/n. The hydrogen bonding is of the cyclic dimer type about a center of symmetry. The carboxyl O atoms are ordered as is the carboxyl H atom. The anthracene core, while less nearly planar, shows good agreement with the anthracene cores of anthracene-9-carboxylic acid and anthracene-1,6-dicarboxylic acid. The carboxyl group plane makes a dihedral angle of 12.4 (2) degrees with the best-fit anthracene core plane.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Ohio State University, Columbus 43210, USA.
authors.forename: L J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Fitzgerald
authors.forename: R E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Gerkin
mesh_terms: D000873:Anthracenes / Q000737:chemistry*; D002264:Carboxylic Acids / Q000737:chemistry*; D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray; D008958:Models, Molecular
chemical_list: D000873:Anthracenes; D002264:Carboxylic Acids; C107996:anthracene-1-carboxylic acid