“…Amongst these alkaloids, (3R,4S,8R,9S)-cinchonan-9-ol owes its physiological activity to the stereochemistry of the chiral atoms C8 and C9; also to the amino group (on the C8 atom) and the hydroxyl group (on the C9 atom) forming hydrogen bonds with receptors. This alkaloid, when treated with one molar equivalent of tartaric acid, affords cinchoninium± bitartrate tetrahydrate (Puliti et al, 2001); the bitartrate anions are linked by a carboxyl±hydroxyl hydrogen bond into a chain running along the b axis of the monoclinic unit cell. When the stereochemistry of the alkaloid is altered to 8S,9R, as in (3R,4S,8S,9R)-cinchonan-9-ol, the synthesis furnishes the title diammonium tartrate, (I), as a dihydrate (see Scheme, Fig.…”