Hydro­gen bonds and C—H⋯O interactions in 2‐(2‐methyl­benzyl)­malonic acid at 150 K

The title compound, C₁₁H₁₂O₄, crystallized in the centrosymmetric space group Pbca with one mol­ecule as the asymmetric unit. The two hydrogen bonds have O_D?O_A distances of 2.667 (2) and 2.628 (2) Å, and O—H?O angles of 179 (2) and 177 (2)°. Each hydrogen bond forms an R(8) cyclic dimer about a center of symmetry. The leading intermolecular C—­H?O interaction has an H?O distance of 2.66 Å and a C—H?O angle of 160°. Taken together with the hydrogen bonds, it results in a three‐dimensional network of inter­actions. The structure is compared with that of a close analog, benzyl­malonic acid.