The molecule is the conjugate base of methoxymycolic acid type-1 (VI'). A class of mycolic acids characterized by the presence of two proximal cis-cyclopropyl groups and a distal (CH-CH3)-(CHO-CH3) fragment of (S,S) stereochemistry in the meromycolic chain. It is an organic molecular entity and a mycolate.
(2R,3R)-2-ethyl-3-hydroxy-4-[2-[[2-[(2S,3S)-2-methoxy-3-methylpentyl]cyclopropyl]methyl]cyclopropyl]butanoate