Crystal structure of rac-3,9-bis­(2,6-di­fluoro­phen­yl)-2,4,8,10-tetra­oxa­spiro[5.5]undeca­ne

The title compound, C(19)H(16)F(4)O(4), was prepared by the condensation reaction of 2,6-di­fluoro­benzaldehyde and penta­erythritol. The whole mol­ecule is generated by twofold rotational symmetry. The two six-membered O-heterocycles adopt chair conformations through a shared spiro-carbon atom that is located on the crystallographic twofold rotation axis. In this conformation, the two aromatic rings are located at the equatorial positions of the O-heterocycles. The conformation of this doubly substituted tetra­oxa­spiro system is chiral. In the crystal, mol­ecules are linked by C—H⋯O hydrogen bonds, forming layers parallel to (100). These layers are linked by C—H⋯F hydrogen bonds into a three-dimensional structure.