rac-Ethyl 2-hydroxy-2,7,7-trimethyl-4-(4-nitrophenyl)-5-oxo-3,4,5,6,7,8-hexahydro-2H-chromene-3-carboxylate

• Main Authors: Konstantin A. Potekhin, Rizvan K. Askerov, Bahruz A. Rashidov, Arif I. Ismiev, Abel M. Maharramov
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: International Union of Crystallography 2013-01-01
• Series: Acta Crystallographica Section E
• Online Access: http://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?S1600536812050581

The title molecule, C21H25NO7, has four stereogenic centres and crystallized as a racemate. It consists of enantiomeric pairs with the relative configuration rac-(1R*,2S*,3R*). The cyclohexenone ring adopts an envelope conformation; the dimethyl-substituted C atom lies 0.640 (1) Å out of the mean plane formed by the rest of the ring atoms (r.m.s. deviation = 0.016 Å). The oxacyclohexene ring adopts a half-chair conformation, the hydroxy- and carboxyl-substituted C atoms lying −0.336 (1) and 0.419 (1) Å, respectively, out of the mean plane formed by the rest of the ring atoms (r.m.s. deviation = 0.002 Å). In the crystal, O—H...O hydrogen bonds link the molecules into a chain along the c-axis direction.