Piperazine-2,5-dione-oxalic acid-water (1/1/2) and a redetermination of piperazine-2,5-dione, both at 120 K: hydrogen-bonded sheets containing multiple ring types.

In piperazine-2,5-dione-oxalic acid-water (1/1/2), C4H6N2O2.C2H2O4.2H2O, both organic components lie across inversion centres in space group P-1.