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Qing-Yan Chu1, Shan Liu, Yuan-Yuan Liu
1Department of Applied Chemistry, College of Science, Nanjing University of Technology, Nanjing 210009, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
In the organic mol-ecule of the title compound, C(19)H(25)O(2)P·0.5H(2)O, the benzene rings are oriented at a dihedral angle of 54.04 (3)°. Intra-molecular C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds result in the formation of two five-membered planar rings, which are oriented with respect to the adjacent benzene rings at dihedral angles of 2.66 (3) and 2.79 (3)°. In the crystal structure, inter-molecular O-H⋯O hydrogen bonds link the mol-ecules. The water oxygen atom lies on a twofold rotation axis.
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