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SUBMITTER: Efthimiopoulos G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2968635 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Acta crystallographica. Section E, Structure reports online 20090211 Pt 3
The title ketocarboxylic acid, C(5)H(6)O(3), is the smallest carboxy-cyclanone to have its crystal structure determined. It adopts a chiral conformation, by rotation of its carboxyl O atoms away from the plane of skeletal symmetry that passes through the carboxyl carbon and both atoms of the ketone carbonyl. The four-membered ring is non-planar, with a shallow fold of 14.3 (1)° along a line connecting the two α-carbons of the ketone group. In the crystal, the molecules are linked by centrosymmet ...[more]