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Author Henry Rzepa
Metaldehyde is an insecticide used to control slugs.
Metaldehyde is an insecticide used to control slugs.
The molecular conformation of the title compound has been defined by an X-ray crystallographic analysis from diffractometer data measured with Cu Kα radiation. The monoclinic crystals belong to the space group P21/n with a 16.256(6), b 6.130(1), c 9.812(2) Ǻ, β 96.42(2)°, and Z 2. The structure was solved by direct methods and refinement converged to give an R of 0.071 for the 1221 observed terms. Unlike other 1,3,5,7- substituted eight-membered heterocyclic compounds, the molecule adopts a chair conformation and has exact C1 symmetry. All the trichloromethyl substituents are equatorial.