“…The crystal structure of the title compound was determined because of the biological importance of its analogues. A search of Version 5.23 (July 2002 updates) of the Cambridge Structural Database (Allen, 2002) revealed 16 structures [refcodes KAWDAN (Niestroj et al, 1998), FIXCAQ (Chinnakali et al, 1999), NEDXUP, NEDYAW and NEDYIE (Gallucci et al, 1998), NUNCII (Goswami et al, 1998), RASSOT (Işik et al, 1997), RELVUZ (Bott et al, 1996), SIMVUF (Bindal et al, 1990), TCPTOS (Wieczorek & Galdecki, 1978), TEBFOV (Prince et al, 1991), TMPDTS (Wieczorek et al, 1975), TSMIPH (Sarkar & Gupta, 1980), WOHCUR (Meents et al, 2000), ZZZBDA10 (Wieczorek, 1980) and MIWHIJ (Lee et al, 2001)] that are closely related to the title compound in having benzene rings attached to the sulfonate group. The S-C, S-O and S O bond lengths (Table 1) are comparable to those found in related structures (Vembu, Nallu, Garrison & Youngs, 2003a,b,c,d,e,f;Vembu, Nallu, Spencer & Howard, 2003a,b,c,d,e,f,g;Vembu et al, 2003;Vembu, Nallu, Durmus et al, 2004a,b,c).…”