Dibenzo-18-crown-6–picric acid–water (1/2/3)

In the crown ether ring of the title compound, C(20)H(24)O(6)·2C(6)H(3)N(3)O(7)·3H(2)O, the O—C(H(2))—C(H(2))—O torsion angles indicate a gauche conformation of the ethyl­eneoxy units, while the C—O—C—C torsion angles indicate planarity of these segments; the dihedral angle between the two benzene rings is 44.53 (13)°. In both picric acid mol­ecules, one of the nitro groups is twisted away from the attached ring. The mol­ecules are linked into chains along the b axis via inter­molecular O—H⋯O hydrogen bonds. In addition, the crystal structure is stabilized by C—H⋯O hydrogen bonds and π–π inter­actions [centroid–centroid distance between benzene rings = 3.5697 (16) Å].