Secohellebrigeninamide.

The title compound, C(26)H(37)NO(5), was the reaction product of hellebrigenin with N,N-dimethyl-formamide. It consists of three cyclo-hexane rings (A, B and C), one five-membered ring (D) and one dihydro-pyran ring (E). The stereochemistry of the ring junctions is is A/B cis, B/C trans, C/D cis and C/E trans. The cyclo-hexane rings A, B and C have chair conformations. Both the five-membered ring D and the dihydro-pyran ring adopt an envelope conformation. Two orientations are found for the aldehyde group with occupancies of 0.608 (10) and 0.392 (10). In the crystal, short O-H⋯O hydrogen bonds and short C-H⋯O contacts involving the hy-droxy group, terminal methyl group and carbonyl group link the mol-ecules into a three-dimensional network.