A kinetically favoured crystal, with many molecules in the asymmetric unit, may be a fossil relic of the crystal nucleus of a more stable polymorph.

Enantioselective reductive desymmetrization of glutarimides has been achieved employing an oxazaborolidine catalyst derived from cis-1-amino-indan-2-ol. The reaction was found to proceed through a stereoablative process that upgraded the enantioselectivity of an intermediate hydroxy-lactam. The reaction was generally tolerant of a number of substituents in the 4-position, giving enantiomeric ex...

The title complex, [Ni(4)(C(12)H(15)NO(4))(4)]·4H(2)O, has crystal-lographic fourfold inversion symmetry, with each Ni(II) ion coordinated in a slightly distorted square-pyramidal coordination environment and forming an Ni(4)O(4) cubane-like core. In the crystal structure, inter-molecular O-H⋯O hydrogen bonds connect complex and water mol-ecules to form a three-dimensional network. The O atom o...

The Sn atom in the title compound, [Sn(CH(3))(2)(C(13)H(10)NO(2))(2)], has a highly distorted octa-hedral coordination with the equatorial plane made up of four O atoms from two N-benzoyl-N-phenyl-hydroxy-laminate ligands and the axial positions occupied by two methyl groups. The crystal structure is stabilized by van der Waals inter-actions.

In the title compound, C(27)H(30)O(14)·H(2)O, the hydroxy-phenyl ring makes a dihedral angle of 20.05 (11)° with the chromenone ring system. The crystal structure is stabilized by intra- and inter-molecular O-H⋯O hydrogen bonds. The absolute configuration was assigned on the basis of an analagous structure.

Use of a tandem ring-opening-ring-closing metathesis (RORCM) strategy for the synthesis of functional metathesis catalysts is reported. Ring opening of 7-substituted norbornenes and subsequent ring-closing metathesis forming a thermodynamically stable 6-membered ring lead to a very efficient synthesis of new catalysts from commercially available Grubbs' catalysts. Hydroxy functionalized Grubbs'...

The reactivity of two hydroxy groups in some multioxygenated cyclohexanoids was examined for basic study of the synthesis of the cytotoxic marine natural product pericosine B and related compounds. Differences in reactivity for O-methylation or O-acylation among substrates were observed.

In the title compound, C(16)H(23)NO(5), the H-N-O-C torsion angle is 98.6 (1)°, which is of a similar magnitude to other N,O-diacyl-hydroxy-lamines. The N-O distance is 1.4029 (14) Å, which is similar to the N-O distance in other N,O-diacyl-hydroxy-lamines. In the crystal, intermolecular N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds generate chains of molecules.

In the crystal structure of the title compound, CH(6)NO(+)·Cl(-), the cations and anions are linked by N-H⋯Cl and O-H⋯Cl hydrogen bonds into an undulating layer motif [Schläfli symbol: 4(8).6(8).8(2)]. All non-H atoms lie on a mirror plane.