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Acta Crystallogr Sect E Struct Rep Online
; 65(Pt 6): o1279, 2009 May 14.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-21583141
ABSTRACT
The title mol-ecule, C(20)H(26)O(4), commonly known as meso-dihydro-guaiaretic acid, is a naturally occurring lignan extracted from Larrea tridentata and other plants. The mol-ecule has a noncrystallographic inversion center situated at the midpoint of the central C-C bond, generating the meso stereoisomer. The central C-C-C-C alkyl chain displays an all-trans conformation, allowing an almost parallel arrangement of the benzene rings, which make a dihedral angle of 5.0â (3)°. Both hydr-oxy groups form weak O-Hâ¯O-H chains of hydrogen bonds along [100]. The resulting supra-molecular structure is an undulating plane parallel to (010).