Mehta Goverdhan, Sen Saikat
Department of Organic Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012, Karnataka, India.
Acta Crystallogr Sect E Struct Rep Online. 2011 Aug 1;67(Pt 8):o1985. doi: 10.1107/S1600536811026857. Epub 2011 Jul 9.
The title compound, C(14)H(17)FO(2), was obtained from anti-4a,9a:8a,10a-diep-oxy-1,4,4a,5,8,8a,9,9a,10,10a-deca-hydro-anthra-cene via tandem hydrogen-fluoride-mediated epoxide ring-opening and transannular oxacyclization. With the two cyclo-hexene rings folded towards the oxygen bridge, the title tetra-cyclic fluoro-alcohol mol-ecule displays a conformation remin-iscent of a pagoda. The crystal packing is effected via inter-molecular O-H⋯O hydrogen bonds, which link the mol-ecules into a zigzag chain along the b axis.