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organic compounds
The structures of two substituted oxazolidinones, namely, 4-hydroxymethyl-4-methyloxazolidin-2-one [C5H9NO3, (1)] and 4-ethyl-4-hydroxymethyloxazolidin-2-one [C6H11NO3, (2)], are reported. Bond distances in the two structures are almost identical. The oxazolidinone rings both adopt envelope conformations; the fold in (1) is significantly larger than that in (2). There is no intramolecular hydrogen bonding in either structure and the intermolecular hydrogen-bonding schemes are very similar.