“…There is also a tendency for the 0(3) or 0(6) hydroxy atoms to lie in this plane. Similar trends have been noted in other structures containing the glycolate moiety (Goli~ & Speakman, 1965;Colton & Henn, 1965;Johnson, Gabe, Taylor & Rose, 1965;Fischinger & Webb, 1969;Prout et al, 1968;Ellison, Johnson & Levy, 1971;Pijper, 1971) as well as in other hydroxycarboxylate salts of Mn II, such as citrate (Carrell & Glusker, 1973), malate (Karipides & Reed, 1976) and gluconate (Lis, 1979). The conformational phenomena of a-hydroxycarbonyl systems have been investigated by Newton & Jeffrey (1977) using ab initio molecular-orbital theory.…”