“…While solid-state structural studies of acyclic enaminone derivatives of Meldrum's acid have been described (Vencato et al, 2004;Vencato, Cunha, Ferrari, Lariucci & Xavier, 2006;Vencato, Cunha, Ferrari & Sabino, 2006;Cunha et al, 2003Cunha et al, , 2005da Silva et al, ,b, 2006Joussef et al, 2005a,b), no description of crystallographic investigations of cyclic enaminone derivatives of Meldrum's acid are available. We report the structural study of one such compound, 5-(2-azolanyliden)-2,2-dimethyl-1,3-dioxane-4,6-dione, (I).…”