“…The carboxyl group is found to occur in its unsymmetrical conformation (Dunitz & Strickler, 1968) in such a way that the C=O bond is synplanar with respect to the C(2)-C(2") bond, the internal rotation angle O(2)-C(3)-C(2)-C(2") being 8 °. This conformation, recently described as 'preferred' (Dunitz & Strickler, 1968), has been observed by us in the case of the trans and cis isomers of 1,2-cyclohexanedicarboxylic acids (Benedetti, Corradini, Pedone & Post, 1968Benedetti, Pedone & Allegra, 1970). The atoms of the carboxyl group forming hydrogen bonds across symmetry centers are essentially planar.…”