Crystal structures of medium ring compounds. Part II. The crystal and molecular structure of cis-anti-cis-4,5:9,10-biscyclohexano-1,3,6,8-tetraoxecane
The crystal structure of cis-anti-cis-4,5:9,10-biscyclohexano-1,3,6,8-tetraoxecane (2) has been determined by X-ray diffraction. The crystals are monoclinic, a = 11.120(1), b = 8.127(1), c = 7.990(1) Å, β = 110.01(1)°, P21/c, with Z = 2. The structure was solved by the application of symbolic addition procedures and refined to a final R value of 0.031 (Rw 0.040) for 989 reflections with I > 2.0σ(I).This structural determination confirms a previous tentative assignment of the relative configuration of 2. In the crystal, the two cis-substituted cyclohexane rings adopt chair conformations in which the equatorial oxygens on different rings are linked through methylene groups to axial oxygens on the other rings. The central 10-membered tetraoxecane ring adopts the boat–chair–boat conformation, the most stable conformation for cyclodecane.