Axial site

The following are representations of two forms of glucose The six membered ring is known to exist in a chair conformation in each form Draw clear representations of the most stable con formation of each Are they two different conformations of the same molecule or are they stereoisomers Which substituents (if any) occupy axial sites ... 

The nitrogen lone pair is sterically undemanding, and so usually predominantly occupies an axial site. Solvation can, however, considerably alter this picture. 

Compounds in which conformational, rather than configurational, equilibria are influenced by the anomeric effect are depicted in entries 4—6. Single-crystal X-ray dilfiaction studies have unambiguously established that all the chlorine atoms of trans, cis, ira j-2,3,5,6-tetrachloro-l,4-dioxane occupy axial sites in the crystal. Each chlorine in die molecule is bonded to an anomeric carbon and is subject to the anomeric effect. Equally striking is the observation that all the substituents of the tri-0-acetyl-/ -D-xylopyranosyl chloride shown in entry 5 are in the axial orientation in solution. Here, no special crystal packing forces can be invoked to rationalize the preferred conformation. The anomeric effect of a single chlorine is sufficient to drive the equilibrium in favor of the conformation that puts the three acetoxy groups in axial positions. 

The structures of several adducts can be rationalized on the basis [128] that in a 5-coordinate low-spin d8 tbp system, the acceptor ligands prefer to occupy an equatorial site (IrCl(CO)2(PPh3)2) whereas a 7r-donor prefers an axial site. In a square pyramidal situation, it is weakly bonded acceptors that prefer the apical position, e.g. (IrCl(S02)(C0)(PPh3)2. 

It is quite probable that, in the monoorganostannatranes, RSnlOCHjjCHjljN, the tin atom also occupies a trigonal, bipyramidal geometry, but with the organic group forced into an axial site (195,... 

Although the number of actinides is the same as that of the lanthanides, their availability and chemical characteristics have so far largely restricted the study of their ligand substitution mechanisms to dioxouranium(VI), which is the ionic form of uranium most amenable to such studies in solution. In the solid state, the oxo ligands occupy axial sites above and below the U(VI) center, and four (328), five (329, 330), and six (331, 332) oxygen donor atoms have been reported to occupy equatorial positions. From a mechanistic point of view, this variability of the occupancy of the equatorial plane suggests the possibility of both d- and a-activated ligand substitution pro-... 

A cyclam derivative with an amine pendent donor attached at the bridgehead carbon atom was presynthesized from diethylaminomalonate and l,9-diamino-3,7-diazanonane in refluxing MeOH, followed by BH3-THF reduction.1507 It acts as a pentadentate ligand at pH 8.5 and forms a six-coordinate complex (592) with a water molecule sitting at the remaining axial site. 

The platinum(II) catalyzed reduction of civ,civ,/rart.v-diaminedihalodihydroxoplatinum(IV) complexes by ascorbate has been reported to proceed via a long-lived platinum(IV)-ascorbate radical.518 Ascorbate reduction of complexes with halides in the axial sites has been reported to proceed via reductive attack on one of these halides.519 This group also showed that reduction by A sc2 occurred seven orders of magnitude more rapidly than reduction by I IAsc and that H2Asc is unreactive.519 Reduction by thiols and methionine is strongly dependent on pH because of a similar variation in reactivity of the protonated and unprotonated forms of the reductants.505,514... 

In the spectra of alkyl cobinamides two peaks have been observed at 3.89 and 4.42 which were assigned to the protons of a water molecule coordinated at the lower axial site (130). To confirm this assignment, it was found that addition of cyanide to methyl cobinamide, which displaces coordinated water, caused the peaks to disappear. Likewise, addition of excess D2O caused disappearance of the peaks through either ligand exchange or proton-deuteron exchange. 

In order to correctly predict which ligands occupy which sites in such compounds, one must recognize that, as a general rule, fluorines will always prefer the axial site in a trigonal bipyramidal system, perhaps because of fluorine s small size, but probably also because of its preference to bind to orbitals with as little s-character as possible. The orbitals used by P to make its axial bonds have less s-character than those used to make its equatorial bonds. This is reflected by the larger F—P coupling constants to the equatorial fluorine substituents. 

All compounds of the type R3PF2 will have both fluorines occupying the axial sites, and thus their fluorine NMR spectra consist of but one signal (Scheme 7.9). 

Figure 4.22 The less electronegative ligands always preferentially occupy the less crowded equatorial sites of a trigonal bipyramid, leaving the more electronegative ligands in the more crowded axial sites.

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