Tags: Chemical Compound, Chemical Substance.
Santonic acid is an organic compound containing both carboxylic acid and ketone functionality.It was synthesized from santonin by base-mediated hydrolysis of a lactone followed by a multistep rearrangement process by R. B. Woodward.Unusually for a carboxylic acid santonic acid does not form hydrogen-bonded dimers in the crystalline phase. Rather it adopts a polymeric structure with individual santonic acid molecules linked by intermolecular carboxyl-to-ketone hydrogen bonds.
