“…In the crystal cell of 1 (Fig. 2), all the 1,4-dioxane-2,5-dione rings are located in parallel planes at a distance of approximately 2.0 Å , but do not tend to form molecular stacks and organize the rings neither into columns, as reported for hemilactides bearing relatively small substituents, such as 3,6dimethyl-1,4-dioxane-2,5-dione (van Hummel et al, 1982) and 3-bromo-3,6-dimethyl-1,4-dioxane-2,5-dione and 3-methylene-6-methyl-1,4-dioxane-2,5-dione (Fiore et al, 2010), nor into supramolecular formations where one half of the parallel plane is perpendicular to the other, as reported in the cases of 3-benzyloxymethyl-6-methyl-1,4-dioxane-2,5-dione (Kooijman et al, 2005) and 3,6-diphenyl-l,4-dioxane-2,5-dione (Lynch et al, 1990). In addition, the crystal packing shows some short C-HÁ Á ÁO contacts (Table 1) leading to the pairwise molecular binding, i.e.…”