Spiro compound
![A fully carbo-cyclic spiro com-pound. Spiro(5.5) undecane,[2] again shown in line-angle representation and in apparent planarity, masking the actual most populated chair conformation of each ring, and their actual orthogonal orientation to one another.](/uploads/202502/12/Spiro_5.5_undecan.svg5318.png)

![The Brazilian Laurencia dendroidea (red algae) sesquiterpene and halogenated carbocyclic spiro compound, elatol.[9]](/uploads/202502/12/Elatol5318.png)

A spiro compound, or spirane, from the Latin spīra, meaning a twist or coil, is a chemical compound, typically an organic compound, that presents a twisted structure of two or more rings (a ring system), in which 2 or 3 rings are linked together by one common atom, examples of which are shown at right.