The crystal structure of
(S)-(-)-6-bromo-5,7-dihydroxy-8-methyl-2-phenyl-2,3-dihydro-4H-1-benzopyran-4-one
[(–)-6-bromocryptostrobin] (11) has been determined by X-ray diffraction from diffractometer data at 295 K and refined by block diagonal
least squares to a residual of 0.050 (810 'observed' reflections). Crystals of
(11) are tetragonal, P43212, a 7.849(4), c 46.83(2) �,
Z 8. The crystallographic data are consistent with the S configuration
previously proposed for (–)-cryptostrobin (10). The 13C
n.m.r, spectra of (�)-cryptostrobin and(�)-strobopinin also lead to the structures (1) and (6),
respectively. This work has enabled the structures proposed for the natural
products (�)-lawinal, unonal,
7-O-methylunonal and isounonal to be
revised to (8), (14), (15) and (12), respectively.