title: (3,5,5,6,8,8-Hexamethyl-5,6,7,8-tetra-hydro-naphthalen-2-yl)methanol: a possible metabolite of the synthetic musk fragrance AHTN.
abstract: The title compound (AHTN-OH), C(17)H(26)O, was prepared in order to provide standard materials for the qualitative and quanti-tative analysis of environmental pollutants. The mol-ecule possesses a chiral C atom, although the structure determination was performed on racemic material, expressed in the structure as disordered chiral sites. The asymmetric unit consists of four AHTN-OH mol-ecules containing an hy-droxy group and forming a tetra-meric cyclic motif built up by four strong hydrogen bonds between these hy-droxy groups and additionally by two weak C-H⋯π inter-actions. Furthermore, these tetra-mers are linked via very weak C-H⋯π inter-actions, forming chains along the c axis.
authors.forename: Rüdiger
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Faust
authors.forename: Djawed
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Nauroozi
authors.forename: Clemens
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bruhn
authors.forename: Britta
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Koch
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kuhlich
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Piechotta
authors.forename: Irene
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Nehls