Poppy acid: Synthesis and crystal chemistry

S Lovell, P Subramony, B Kahr

Index: Lovell, Scott; Subramony, Paramjeet; Kahr, Bart Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1999 , vol. 121, # 30 p. 7020 - 7025

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Abstract

It had long ago been reported that poppy acid crystals encapsulate and orient a great variety of molecules during solution growth and in so doing seem to egregiously violate the principle of isomorphism. To comprehend this surprising host-guest chemistry, and exploit it for measuring anisotropic molecular properties, we attempted to carry out the oft-used literature synthesis of poppy acid,(3-hydroxy-2, 6-dicarboxy-γ-pyrone), but discovered that ...