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organic compounds
The crystal of benzophenone crown ether acetal, C19H22O4, with an 11-membered ring has two crystallographically independent molecules in the unit cell. The bond lengths and angles in the ring moiety are similar to those of analogous crown ethers. The 11-membered rings are greatly twisted to adopt planar-chiral structures and the unit cell contains two sets of enantiomers.