In the title compound, C13H15NO2, the fused non-aromatic rings of the julolidine moiety adopt envelope conformations. The hy-droxy group forms an intra-molecular hydrogen bond to the aldehyde O atom, generating an S(6) ring motif. Weak inter-molecular C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds help to stabilize the crystal structure. Density functional theory (DFT) optimized structures at the B3LYP/6-311 G(d,p) level are compared with the experimentally determined mol-ecular structure in the solid state.
Keywords: 8-hydroxyjulolidine; crystal structure; hydrogen bonding; julolidine.