(+/-)-(2,3,4,4a,5,6,7,8-Octahydro-2-oxonaphthalen-1-yl)acetic acid: hydrogen-bonding pattern of the monohydrate of an unsaturated bicyclic gamma-keto acid.
In the title compound, C(12)H(16)O(3).H(2)O, the water of hydration accepts a hydrogen bond from the carboxyl group and donates hydrogen bonds to the carboxyl carbonyl and the ketone groups of two different neighbors, yielding a complex three-dimensional hydrogen-bonding array. There are two independent hydrated molecules in the asymmetric unit (Z' = 2) related by a pseudo-translation.
Lalancette
Roger A
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Carl A. Olson Memorial Laboratories, Department of Chemistry, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ 07102, USA. rogerlal@andromeda.rutgers.edu
Brunskill
Andrew P J
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Thompson
Hugh W
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