X‐ray powder diffraction data for 5'‐azido‐5'‐deoxy‐3'‐O‐acetylthymidine

5′-azido-5′-deoxy-3′-O-acetylthymidine (C12H15N5O5) is orthorhombic. The crystal data for the primitive space lattice are a = 5.584 (1), b = 14.347 (4), c = 18.021 (4) A, Dm= 1.41 (1), Dx = 1.422 Mg m−3 and Z = 4. The quantitative figure of merit (FN) is F30 = 96 (0.006, 52). Indexed X-ray powder data are reported.