Tetracyclic diketone Cx3OzHx6, m.p. 124°C, was prepared by K. Wiesner, A. Deljac and T.Y.R. Tsai in the process of developing a new stereospecific method for the synthesis of bridged terpenoids. The crystals belong to the space group C2/c with eight molecules in a unit cell of dimensions: a= 16.214 (4), b = 6.194 (4), c = 24" 198 (4) A and fl= 119"06 (3) . The data, consisting of 1563 observed reflexions, were collected with a Picker automatic and a General Electric XRD-5 manual cliffractometer. The structure was solved by the symbolic addition procedure for phase determination for centrosymmetric space groups, and refined by block-diagonal least-squares cycles to a final R value ef 0.042. The molecules are held by the dipole attraction between carbonyl groups.