The title compound is a diltiazem 1-related compound. Diltiazem, is a benzothiazepine calcium-channel blocking agent. This is a part of our work on a series of 1,5-benzothiazepine compounds 2-4 to understand the geometrical effect and the nature of hydrogen-bonding interactions by varying the different substituents with the parent skeleton using x-ray analysis. As expected, the seven-membered ring (Fig. 1) is not planar; this trend is almost the same in all reported 1,5benzothiazepine structures, 1,3,4 including its racemic form. 2 cis(+)-Propionic acid (5 g) was treated with acetic anhydride (3.4 g) and pyridine (2.2 g) in acetonitrile at 50˚C for 4 h; the reaction mass was poured in water. The precipitated compound (4 g) was filtered and then oxidized with oxone (7.2 g) in a water and acetone mixture. The product formed was extracted with ethyl acetate, and then evaporated ethyl acetate to obtain the above mentioned compound, 3.5 g [α]R T = +322.89˚. Further, the compound was crystallized from acetone by a slow evaporation method at room temperature. The molecular structure of the title compound is shown in Fig. 2. Crystallographic data and experimental details of a structural analysis are summarized in Table 1. The structure was solved by direct methods and refined by full-matrix least-squares. All of the non-hydrogen atoms were refined anisotropically and the H atoms were geometrically fixed and constrained to ride on the parent atom in the model. The atomic coordinates and equivalent isotropic displacement parameters for non-hydrogen x83