“…The crystal structures of several salts of AH 2 have been obtained, including the sodium salt NaAH (10), as well as calcium (27)(28)(29), strontium (30), lithium (31), thallium (32), and other ascorbates (33). The crystal structures were often found to contain various amounts of hydrate water in addition to one or more ascorbate ions that look much like the AH 2 depicted in Figure 1, although without H3.…”