title: (+/-)-3-Oxocyclopentanecarboxylic acid: The smallest keto acid known to aggregate by catemeric hydrogen bonding.
abstract: The title compound, C6H8O3, is the smallest keto acid yet found to aggregate in the solid as acid-to-ketone hydrogen-bonded catemers. Four translational chains pass through the cell in the a direction [O...O = 2.6915 (14) A and O-H...O = 166 degrees]. Two intermolecular C-H...O close contacts exist, involving both carbonyl functions.
authors.affiliation: Carl A. Olson Memorial Laboratories, Department of Chemistry, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ 07102, USA.
authors.forename: Muhammad H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Malak
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Baker
authors.forename: Andrew P J
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Brunskill
authors.forename: Hugh W
authors.initials: HW
authors.lastname: Thompson
authors.forename: Roger A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Lalancette