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A Strategy for Sensitive, Large Scale Quantitative Metabolomics
Published on: May 27, 2014
(2,2-Dimethyl-1,3-dioxolan-4-yl)methyl 3-carboxy-propanoate
Abstract:
In the title compound, C(10)H(16)O(6), the five-membered ring has an envelope conformation. The packing involves hydrogen-bonded carboxylic acid inversion dimers and three C-H⋯O inter-actions.
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