In the title compound, C36H44O10·C6H6, the dioxolane ring adopts an envelope conformation with the C atom bonded to the H atom as the flap, while the cyclo-hexene and cyclo-hexane rings are in half-chair and chair conformations, respectively. In the crystal, a pair of O-H⋯O hydrogen bonds with an R 2 (2)(26) graph-set motif connect the benzoate mol-ecules into an inversion dimer. The dimers are linked by a weak C-H⋯O inter-action into a tape structure along [01-1]. The benzene mol-ecule links the tapes through C-H⋯O and C-H⋯π inter-actions, forming a sheet parallel to (100).
Keywords: crystal structure; hydrogen bonds; paclitaxel; taxane skeleton.