Authors: Melvyn Rowen Churchill, David George Churchill, Gulzar Ahmed, Huw M.L. Davies
J. Chem. Crystallography,
1999, 29, 6, 707-711
The compound under investigation crystallizes in the noncentrosymmetric orthorhombic space group P212121 with a = 7.9358(11), b = 11.0532(13), c = 29.2425(43) Å, volume = 2565.0(6) Å3, and Z = 4. The C23H34O8Si molecule contains three chiral centers (one of which is of known configuration, based upon an (R)-pantolactone auxillary group). We have determined the absolute configuration of this species (via the anomalous dispersion of Si relative to C and O) and show that it is consistent with the known configuration of the (R)-pantolactone moiety.