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Guang-Liang Song1, Shan Liu, Shui-Ping Deng
1Department of Applied Chemistry, College of Science, Nanjing University of Technology, Nanjing 210009, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
The title mol-ecule, C(16)H(16)Br(2)O(8), lies on a crystallographic twofold axis. Weak intra-molecular C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds may, in part, control the conformation of the mol-ecule. In the crystal structure, mol-ecules are connected into a two-dimensional network via weak inter-molecular C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds.
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