The structure of the title compound, C12H23N5O6, solved using adequate data from a thin crystal plate, confirmed that this useful glycoconjugate was obtained in the ring-closed β-pyran-ose configuration with (4) C 1 conformation. The mol-ecules are bound by O-H⋯O(OH) hydrogen bonds, notably in a zigzag C(2) chain along the short b (screw) axis, supplemented with an R 2 (2)(12) O-H⋯O(carbon-yl) link along the a axis and other C(2) links. The absolute configuration was not unambiguously determined but was known from the synthetic chemistry, which used natural 2-acetamido-2-de-oxy-d-glucose as the starting material.
Keywords: carbohydrate; crystal structure; oxyamine glycoside.