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Volume 64 
Part 5 
Page o890  
May 2008  

Received 2 March 2008
Accepted 15 April 2008
Online 23 April 2008

Key indicators
Single-crystal X-ray study
T = 153 K
Mean [sigma](C-C) = 0.003 Å
R = 0.042
wR = 0.113
Data-to-parameter ratio = 11.2
Details
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3[beta]-Hydroxyfriedelan-17[beta]-carboxylic acid

aCollege of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, People's Republic of China,bDepartment of Chemistry, Hainan Normal University, Haikou 571158, People's Republic of China, and cDepartment of Biology and Chemistry, Hunan University of Science and Engineering, Yongzhou 425100, People's Republic of China
Correspondence e-mail: lincuiwu@gxu.edu.cn

The title compound, C30H50O3, which was isolated from a marine endophytic fungus, is a new friedelan derivative. The molecule contains five six-membered rings, which exhibit boat (ring A), distorted boat (ring B) and chair (rings C-E) conformations. The crystal structure is stabilized by intermolecular O-H...O hydrogen bonds, which link neighbouring molecules into 12-membered rings.

Related literature

For general background, see: Chen et al. (2003[Chen, G. Y., Lin, Y. C., Wen, L., Vrijmoed, L. L. P. & Gareth, E. B. J. (2003). Tetrahedron, 59, 4907-4909.], 2005[Chen, H. Y., Qi, P., Lin, Y. C., Chen, G. Y., Wang, L. & Vrijmoed, L. L. P. (2005). Zhongshan Daxue Xuebao (Ziran Kexueban), 44, 122-123.], 2006a[Chen, H. Y., Lin, Y. C., Chen, G. Y., Hu, G. P., Wang, L. & Vrijmoed, L. L. P. (2006a). Chem. Nat. Compd. 42, 407-409.],b[Chen, H.-Y., Lin, Y.-C., Vrijmoed, L. L. P. & Jones, E. B. G. (2006b). Acta Cryst. E62, o836-o837.]); Lin et al. (2001a[Lin, Y. C., Wu, X. Y., Feng, S., Jiang, G. C., Luo, J. H., Zhou, S. N., Vrijmoed, L. L. P., Gareth, E. B. J., Krohn, K., Steingrover, K. & Zsila, F. (2001a). J. Org. Chem. 66, 6252-6256.],b[Lin, Y. C., Wu, X. Y., Feng, S., Jiang, G. C., Zhou, S. N., Vrijmoed, L. L. P. & Gareth, E. B. J. (2001b). Tetrahedron Lett. 42, 449-451.], 2002[Lin, Y. C., Wu, X. Y., Deng, Z. J., Wang, J., Zhou, S. N., Vrijmoed, L. L. P. & Gareth, E. B. J. (2002). Phytochemistry, 59, 469-471.]). For related structures, see: Dhaneshwar et al. (1987[Dhaneshwar, N. N., Sawaikar, D. D., Narayanan, C. R., Tavale, S. S. & Guru Row, T. N. (1987). Acta Cryst. C43, 66-68.]); Fun et al. (2007[Fun, H.-K., Boonnak, N. & Chantrapromma, S. (2007). Acta Cryst. E63, o2014-o2016.]); Mo (1977[Mo, F. (1977). Acta Cryst. B33, 641-649.]); Mo et al. (1989[Mo, F., Winther, S. & Scrimgeour, S. N. (1989). Acta Cryst. B45, 261-270.]); Sun et al. (2004[Sun, J., Zhang, H. G., Zhang, J. M., Zhang, T. B., Guo, B. & Zhang, H. Q. (2004). J. Chin. Pharm. Sci. 13, 291-292.]).

[Scheme 1]

Experimental

Crystal data
  • C30H50O3

  • Mr = 458.70

  • Orthorhombic, P 21 21 2

  • a = 13.238 (3) Å

  • b = 24.141 (5) Å

  • c = 8.7349 (17) Å

  • V = 2791.5 (10) Å3

  • Z = 4

  • Mo K[alpha] radiation

  • [mu] = 0.07 mm-1

  • T = 153 (2) K

  • 0.51 × 0.48 × 0.46 mm

Data collection
  • Bruker SMART CCD area-detector diffractometer

  • Absorption correction: none

  • 18448 measured reflections

  • 3466 independent reflections

  • 3010 reflections with I > 2[sigma](I)

  • Rint = 0.029

Refinement
  • R[F2 > 2[sigma](F2)] = 0.042

  • wR(F2) = 0.112

  • S = 1.04

  • 3466 reflections

  • 308 parameters

  • H-atom parameters constrained

  • [Delta][rho]max = 0.20 e Å-3

  • [Delta][rho]min = -0.15 e Å-3

Table 1
Hydrogen-bond geometry (Å, °)

D-H...A D-H H...A D...A D-H...A
O35-H35...O41i 0.84 1.83 2.644 (2) 163
O41-H41...O34ii 0.84 1.89 2.721 (2) 168
Symmetry codes: (i) [x-{\script{1\over 2}}, -y+{\script{1\over 2}}, -z+1]; (ii) [-x+{\script{3\over 2}}, y-{\script{1\over 2}}, -z+1].

Data collection: SMART (Bruker, 1998[Bruker, (1998). SMART and SAINT. Bruker AXS Inc., Madison, Wisconsin, USA.]); cell refinement: SAINT (Bruker, 1998[Bruker, (1998). SMART and SAINT. Bruker AXS Inc., Madison, Wisconsin, USA.]); data reduction: SAINT; program(s) used to solve structure: SHELXTL (Sheldrick, 2008[Sheldrick, G. M. (2008). Acta Cryst. A64, 112-122.]); program(s) used to refine structure: SHELXTL; molecular graphics: SHELXTL; software used to prepare material for publication: SHELXTL.


Supplementary data and figures for this paper are available from the IUCr electronic archives (Reference: XU2405 ).


Acknowledgements

The project was supported by Guangxi Science Foundation (Guikezi0728257, Guikeji0144002) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (20562004). The X-ray data were collected at the Instrumentation Analysis and Research Center of Sun Yat-sen (Zhongshan) University; the authors thank the staff for all their help and advice. We acknowledge Dr S. Parkin at the University of Kentucky (Lexington) and Dr Z. Ma at the University of Guangxi (Nanning) for their advice.

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