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SUBMITTER: Wood MR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2960340 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Acta crystallographica. Section E, Structure reports online 20080130 Pt 2
The title compound, (1R,2R,3S,5S,8S)-3-hydr-oxy-8-methyl-8-azoniabicyclo-[3.2.1]octane-2-carboxylic acid chloride, C(9)H(16)NO(3) (+)·Cl(-), is both a metabolite and a precursor of the tropane alkaloid l-cocaine. The carboxyl group is not involved in dimerization, but instead donates a hydrogen bond to the chloride counter-ion, which participates in two additional hydrogen bonds. The chloride ion is thus trigonally hydrogen bonded to three l-ecgonine cations. The quarternary N proton is intra-mo ...[more]