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SUBMITTER: Tsai YF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2961159 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tsai Yow-Fu YF Su Yu-Ting YT Lin Chia-Her CH
Acta crystallographica. Section E, Structure reports online 20080430 Pt 5
The title compound, C(10)H(14)O(5), is an inter-mediate in our study of the asymmetric synthesis of α-hydroxy-alkanoic acids. The structure consists of 1,4-dioxaspiro[4,5]decane skeleton formed when the cyclohexylidene group binds to both of the hydroxyl groups of carboxylic groups of the starting malic acid. The six-membered ring adopts a chair conformation. ...[more]