Methyl 7,8-diacet­oxy-11-oxo-5-(2-oxo­pyrrolidin-1-yl)-7,9-epoxy­cyclo­penta­[4,5]pyrido[1,2-a]quinoline-10-carboxyl­ate sesquihydrate

The title compound, C(26)H(28)N(2)O(9)·1.5H(2)O, the product of an acid-catalysed Wagner–Meerwein skeletal rearrangement, crystallizes as a sesquihydrate with the O atom of one of the two independent water mol­ecules occupying a special position on a twofold axis. The organic mol­ecule comprises a fused penta­cyclic system containing two five-membered rings (cyclo­pentane and tetra­hydro­furan) and three six-membered rings (piperidinone, tetra­hydro­pyridine and benzene). The five-membered rings have the usual envelope conformations, and the central six-membered piperidinone and tetra­hydro­pyridine rings adopt boat and sofa conformations, respectively. In the crystal, there are three independent O—H⋯O hydrogen bonds, which link the organic mol­ecules and water mol­ecules into complex two-tier layers parallel to (001). The layers are further linked into a three-dimensional framework by attractive inter­molecular carbon­yl–carbonyl inter­actions.