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organic compounds
Molecules of the title compound, C10H14O6S2, possess crystallographically imposed inversion symmetry, with the central S-C-C-S moiety assuming an ideal trans conformation. Molecular-geometry parameters within the 1,3-dioxolan-2-one substituent are compared with those found in the small number of related compounds whose structures have been determined.