Abstract: | 3β‐Hydroxy‐7‐drimen‐12,11‐olide hemihydrate, C15H22O3·0.5H2O, (I), has two sesquiterpene molecules and one water molecule in the asymmetric unit. The OH groups of both molecules and both H atoms of the water molecule are involved in near‐linear intermolecular hydrogen bonds, having O⋯O distances in the range 2.632 (3)–2.791 (2) Å. 3β‐Acetoxy‐7‐drimen‐12,11‐olide, C17H24O4, (II), has its ring system in very nearly the same conformation as the two molecules of (I). |