page_title: Dodecahydroxycyclohexane
section_title: Dihydrate
hierarchical_section_title: Dodecahydroxycyclohexane / Dihydrate
caption_attribution_description: Thermal ellipsoid model of the molecular cell of dodecahydroxycyclohexane dihydrate, C6H12O12·2H2O, as found in the crystal structure. The thermal ellipsoids are drawn at the 50% probability level, except hydrogen for which is just given a standard sphere. X-ray crystallographic data from Acta Cryst. (2005). E61, o1393-o1395. Model constructed and image generated in CrystalMaker 8.1.
context_page_description: Dodecahydroxycyclohexane is an organic compound with molecular formula C₆O₁₂H₁₂ or C₆(OH)₁₂. It is a sixfold geminal diol with a cyclohexane backbone and can be regarded as a sixfold hydrate of cyclohexanehexone.
context_section_description: The dihydrate C₆O₁₂H₁₂·2H₂O can be crystallized from methanol as colorless plates or prisms, that decomposes at about 100 °C.
  This compound was synthetized by J. Lerch in 1862 by oxidation of benzenehexol C₆(OH)₆ or tetrahydroxy-p-benzoquinone C₆(OH)₄O₂ and characterized by R. Nietzki and others in 1885, although the product was for a long time assumed to be hexaketocyclohexane with water of crystallization (C₆O₆·8H₂O).
  Indeed, this product is still commonly marketed as cyclohexanehexone octahydrate, hexaketocyclohexane octahydrate, triquinoyl octahydrate  and similar names.  Its true nature was suspected since the 1950s or earlier, but was confirmed by X-ray diffraction analysis only in 2005
caption: Thermal ellipsoid model of the molecular cell of dodecahydroxycyclohexane dihydrate
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