The title compound, C16H16O2S2·C4H8O2, is a cyclophane derivative, which was crystallized from an ethylacetate/methanol solvent system. The metacyclophane moiety exists with the benzene rings in the syn orientation, and with a pseudo chair–chair conformation for the dithia 12-membered ring. Both hydroxy groups are positioned on same side of this ring. In the crystal, the cyclophane and the lattice solvent are linked by O—H...O hydrogen bonds.
