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Guangrong Zheng1, Sean Parkin, Linda P Dwoskin
1Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA.
Abstract:
The crystal structures of the title compounds, 2 alpha,4 alpha-dibenzyl-3 alpha-tropanol (2 alpha,4 alpha-dibenzyl-8-methyl-8-azabicyclo[3.2.1]octan-3 alpha-ol), C(22)H(27)NO, (I), and 2 alpha,4 alpha-dibenzyl-3 beta-tropanol (2 alpha,4 alpha-dibenzyl-8-methyl-8-azabicyclo[3.2.1]octan-3 beta-ol), C(22)H(27)NO, (II), show that both compounds have a piperidine ring in a chair conformation and a pyrrolidine ring in an envelope conformation. Isomer (I) is asymmetric, the benzyl groups having different orientations, whereas isomer (II) is mirror symmetric, and the N and O atoms, the C atom attached to the hydroxy group, and the methyl C atom attached to the N atom lie on the mirror plane. In the crystal structures of both (I) and (II), the molecules are linked together by intermolecular O-H...N hydrogen bonds to form chains that run parallel to the a direction in (I) and parallel to b in (II).
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