The compound 2-ureido-pentanedioic acid was synthesized and characterized by FT-IR and NMR spectra. Its molecular structure was solved by single crystal X-ray diffraction. In the title compound, C6H10N2O5, the chiral structure is stabilized by intermolecular O–H···O and N–H···O hydrogen bonds in a supramolecular assembly formed by infinite chains parallel to the bc plane with graph set C(4) connected by amide-acid dimers R22(8) into a three-dimensional network.
