N‐Amidino‐4‐hydroxy‐l‐proline monohydrate and N‐amidino‐l‐methionine monohydrate

The title amidino‐amino acids (a‐Hpro), C₆H₁₁N₃O₃·H₂O, (I), and a‐Met, C₆H₁₃N₃O₂S·H₂O, (II), respectively, exist in the form of zwitterions. The five‐membered pyrrolidine ring in (I) adopts an envelope conformation, with the Cγ atom out of the plane defined by the rest of the ring atoms, and with the hydroxyl and carboxyl­ate groups in a trans configuration relative to the ring plane. The two crystallographically independent zwitterions in (II) reveal quite different conformations of their side chains and a slightly different orientation of the guanidine moiety with respect to the carboxyl­ate group. The crystal structures of both (I) and (II) are stabilized by extensive networks of O—H·O, N—H·O and C—H·O hydrogen bonds, the network being three‐dimensional in (I) and two‐dimensional in (II).