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Swastik Mondal1, Monika Mukherjee, Arnab Roy
1Department of Solid State Physics, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Calcutta 700 032, India. sspmm@mahendra.iacs.res.in
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In the title tricyclic keto-diester, C(20)H(24)O(6), a potential intermediate in the synthesis of bioactive podocarpic acid, the outer cyclohexane ring (in a chair conformation) is cis fused to the central cyclohexanone ring (in a half-chair conformation). The conformational analysis of the compound, investigated by semi-empirical quantum mechanical AM1 calculations, shows a good agreement with the X-ray structure, except for the orientation of the methyl, methoxyphenyl and methoxycarbonyl substituents.
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