Ourhriss Najia, Benharref Ahmed, Saadi Mohamed, Berraho Moha, El Ammari Lahcen
Laboratoire de Chimie Biomoléculaire, Substances Naturelles et Réactivité "Unité Associée au CNRST (URAC16)", Université Cadi Ayyad, Faculté des Sciences Semlalia, BP 2390, Bd My Abdellah, 40000 Marrakech, Morocco.
Acta Crystallogr Sect E Struct Rep Online. 2013 Apr 13;69(Pt 5):o724. doi: 10.1107/S1600536813009070. Print 2013 May 1.
The title compound, C17H24Br2Cl2, was synthesized from β-himachalene (3,5,5,9-tetra-methyl-2,4a,5,6,7,8-hexa-hydro-1H-benzo-cyclo-heptene), which was isolated from the essential oil of the Atlas cedar (Cedrus Atlantica). The mol-ecule contains fused six-, seven- and two three-membered rings. The six-membered ring has a half-chair conformation, while the seven-membered ring displays a boat conformation. The absolute structure was unambiguously established from anomalous dispersion effects. The crystal packing exhibits no short inter-molecular contacts.