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9α-fluoro-16α-methyl-3,11-dioxoan-drosta-1,4-diene-17β- carboxylic acid: Catemeric hydrogen bonding and acetic acid solvation in a steroidal keto acid related to dexamethasone
Lalancette, Roger A.,Thompson, Hugh W.
, p. o274-o276 (2003)
The title keto acid crystallizes as a solvate, C21H25-FO4·C2H4 O2, with two molecules each of steroid and acetic acid per asymmetric unit. The former are approximately parallel, with opposite end-to-end orientation, and form translational carboxyl-to-ketone hydrogen-bonding catemers [O...;O = 2.679 (6) and 2.650 (5) A, and O-H...O = 165 and 162] that involve the 3-ketone group and follow the a axis. The acetic acid molecules are paired by hydrogen bonding, and neither they nor the F atom nor the 11-ketone group play any overt role in the hydrogen-bonding scheme of the steroid. Intermolecular C-H...O=C close contacts involving three different neighboring molecules exist to the 11-ketone group, the steroidal carboxyl group and one of the acetic acid molecules.