title: Phenanthrene-9-carboxylic acid.
abstract: The title compound, C15H10O2, crystallized in the centrosymmetric space group C2/c. Hydrogen bonding is of the cyclic dimer type about a center of symmetry. The carboxyl H and O atoms are ordered. The phenanthrene core is almost planar and the dihedral angle between the core plane and the carboxyl group plane is only 1.8(1) degrees. The bay H atoms, H4 and H5, lie close to the core plane and 2.02 (2) A from each other; the refinement places them on opposite sides of the core plane, but this result has little statistical significance.
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: D002264:Carboxylic Acids / Q000737:chemistry*; D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray; D006860:Hydrogen Bonding; D008961:Models, Structural; D008968:Molecular Conformation; D010616:Phenanthrenes / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D002264:Carboxylic Acids; D010616:Phenanthrenes; C108889:9-phenanthrenecarboxylic acid