Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie Moléculaire et Synthèse Organique, Département de Chimie, Faculté des Sciences, Semlalia BP 2390, Marrakech 40001, Morocco
Aziz Auhmani
Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie Moléculaire et Synthèse Organique, Département de Chimie, Faculté des Sciences, Semlalia BP 2390, Marrakech 40001, Morocco
My Youssef Ait Itto
Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie Moléculaire et Synthèse Organique, Département de Chimie, Faculté des Sciences, Semlalia BP 2390, Marrakech 40001, Morocco
Jean-Claude Daran
Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination, CNRS UPR8241, 205 route de Narbonne, 31077 Toulouse Cedex 04, France
Abdelwahed Auhmani
Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie Moléculaire et Synthèse Organique, Département de Chimie, Faculté des Sciences, Semlalia BP 2390, Marrakech 40001, Morocco
The title compound, C16H22Br4, was synthesized in two steps from β-himachalene, which was isolated from essential oil of the Atlas cedar (cedrus atlantica). It is built up from three fused rings, a seven-membered heptane ring, a six-membered cyclohexyl ring bearing both a bromine and a bromomethyl substituent, and a three-membered propane ring bearing two Br atoms. In the crystal, molecules are linked by C—H...Br hydrogen bonds, forming chains propagating along [001]. The absolute configuration was deduced from the chemical pathway and confirmed by resonant scattering [Flack parameter = 0.012 (10)].