forthcoming articles

In the title compound, C₃₀H₃₁NO₃S₂, the piperidine ring adopts a distorted chair conformation. The thio­phene rings have twisted conformations about the C—C bonds. The phenyl rings attached to these rings are both positionally disordered over two sets of sites. The crystal packing features inter­molecular O—H⋯O hydrogen bonds and S⋯H, O⋯H, C⋯H and H⋯H contacts.

The title compound has been synthesized as an inhibitor of glycogen synthase kinase-3β. Two mol­ecules inter­act via two N—H⋯N hydrogen bonds.