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Crystals of the title compound are orthorhombic, Pca21;a=27.586(4),b=10.509(3),c=11.080(2) Å,V=3212(1) Å3,Z=8. The structure was solved by direct methods, from data collected at room temperature on an Enraf-Nonius CAD4 diffractometer, and refined by full-matrix least squares to a finalR value of 0.055 using 2043 reflections. One of the two independent molecules in the asymmetric unit is disordered. The disorder is manifested mainly between the oxygen atom and one sulfur atom and is caused by opposite enantiomers occupying corresponding positions in different unit cells. The endocyclic torsion angles in both independent molecules are very similar but the disposition of the heteroatoms on the twist-boat framework is different in the two molecules. Site occupancy of the two models on this framework in the disordered molecule is in the ratio 21∶79 with the smaller proportion being very similar to the ordered molecule and the remainder similar to that found in the ‘normal’ molecule oftrans-4-chloro-2,4,6-tris(trichloromethyl)-1-oxa-3,5-dithian (Irving and Irving, 1988).
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Irving, A., Irving, H.M.N.H. Disorder arising from the location of enantiomers in a twist-boat structure: 2,6-trans-2,4,6-tris(trichloromethyl)-1-oxa-3,5-dithian. Journal of Crystallographic and Spectroscopic Research 19, 183–191 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01160855
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