“…It is worth mentioning that this envelope geometry for the lactone ring is favoured by the 'outer' position of the double bond; when the location is instead 'inner' (C8 C9), the group is strictly planar, with mean deviations from planarity smaller than 0.02 Å (see, for example, Nicotra et al, 2006;Qian & Zhao, 2012;von Nussbaum et al, 2012) A search of the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD, Version 5.34; Allen, 2002) disclosed that the structure of (I) is closely related to three analogues, viz. the disteromer lactone drimenin [(II); CSD refcode DIWSEI; Brito, Ló pez- Rodríguez et al, 2008] The molecular structure of (I), with displacement ellipsoids drawn at the 30% probability level. Computer programs: CrysAlis PRO (Oxford Diffraction, 2009), SHELXS97 (Sheldrick, 2008), XP in SHELXTL (Sheldrick, 2008), SHELXL2013 (Sheldrick, 2008) and PLATON (Spek, 2009).…”