Carbon atom, configuration

In very nearly all of its covalent compounds, carbon forms four bonds. The carbon atom (configuration is Is2 2s2 2p2), however, has only two unpaired electrons in its ground state and by a process of reasoning similar to that in the preceding paragraph, carbon would be expected to form only two covalent bonds. Confronted with this inconsistency, one is tempted to look for ways in which the carbon configuration can be modified to give four unpaired electrons. Suppose, for instance that the... 

The essential step would consist in the subtraction of a hydrogen atom from the CH bond, whereas the subsequent hydroxylation is probably a cage reaction and extremely fast. It therefore may be of minor importance whether the hydroxylation proceeds by a homolytic cleavage of the Fe—OH bond or by a previous oxidation of the C-radical to a carbonium ion with simultaneous addition of the hydroxyl ion. Since the retention of the carbon atom configuration is largely retained, the lifetime of this intermediate transition state must be extremely short. 

Fluorination of 4-thiofuranose hydroxyl-containing derivatives by dialkylamino sulfur trifluoride was successfully applied for the synthesis of 2-fluoro-4-thiosugars 127,128." "" The reactions proceed with complete retention of C-F carbon atom configuration. 

Trivial name Number of carbon atoms Configuration... 

Now the complete term symbols can be written. For the carbon atoms configuration that has S, D, and states ... 

The simplest aldose is aldotriose, known as glyceraldehyde, which contains the aldehyde group in position C-1 and a chiral carbon atom in position C-2. It exists therefore in two (2 = 2 generally 2", where n is the number of chiral carbon atoms) configuration isomers, as D-glyceraldehyde (4-1) and L-glyceraldehyde... 

Figure 5.28 A carbon atomic configuration in sp -hybridization state.

The same nomenclature has been adopted for amino-acids, the configurational family to which the a-carbon atom belongs being denoted by the prefixes d- and L-. 

Coulomb potential felt by a 2p orbital s electron at a point r in the ls 2s 2p 2p configuration description of the carbon atom is ... 

To improve upon die mean-field picture of electronic structure, one must move beyond the singleconfiguration approximation. It is essential to do so to achieve higher accuracy, but it is also important to do so to achieve a conceptually correct view of the chemical electronic structure. Although the picture of configurations in which A electrons occupy A spin orbitals may be familiar and usefiil for systematizing the electronic states of atoms and molecules, these constructs are approximations to the true states of the system. They were introduced when the mean-field approximation was made, and neither orbitals nor configurations can be claimed to describe the proper eigenstates T, . It is thus inconsistent to insist that the carbon atom... 

The two kinds of covalent bond are not identical, one being a simple covalent bond, a sigma (ct) bond, the other being a stronger (but more reactive) bond called a n bond (p. 56). As in the formation of methane both elements attain noble gas configurations. We can consider the formation of ethene as the linking of two tetrahedral carbon atoms to form the molecule C2H4 represented as ... 

The carbon atoms of the double bond have a trigonal planar configuration and free rotation about the C—C bond is prevented by the n bond. The inability to rotate means that geometrical isomers can be produced, with substituents a and b, thus ... 

It also forms compounds known as carbonyls with many metals. The best known is nickel tetracarbonyl, Ni(CO)4, a volatile liquid, clearly covalent. Here, donation of two electrons by each carbon atom brings the nickel valency shell up to that of krypton (28 -E 4 x 2) the structure may be written Ni( <- 0=0)4. (The actual structure is more accurately represented as a resonance hybrid of Ni( <- 0=0)4 and Ni(=C=0)4 with the valency shell of nickel further expanded.) Nickel tetracarbonyl has a tetrahedral configuration,... 

Once the atoms arc defined, the bonds between them arc specified in a bond block. Each line of this block specifies which two atoms are bonded, the multiplicity of the bond (the bond type entry) and the stereo configuration of the bond (there arc also three additional fields that arc unused in Molfiles and usually set to 0). The indices of the atoms reflect the order of their appearance in the atom block. In the example analyzed, V relates to the first carbon atom (see also Figure 2-24). "2" to the second one, 3" to oxygen atom, etc. Then the two first lines of the bond block of the analyzed file (Figure 2-29) describe the single bond between the two carbon atoms C1-C2 and the double bond C2=0-5, respectively. 

Figure 3-22 shows a nucleophilic aliphatic substitution with cyanide ion as a nucleophile, i his reaction is assumed to proceed according to the S f2 mechanism with an inversion in the stereochemistry at the carbon atom of the reaction center. We have to assign a stereochemical mechanistic factor to this reaction, and, clearly, it is desirable to assign a mechanistic factor of (-i-1) to a reaction with retention of configuration and (-1) to a reaction with inversion of configuration. Thus, we want to calculate the parity of the product, of 3 reaction from the parity of the... 

Now since the configuration of carbon atoms 3, 4 and 5 of glucose and fructose art identical, it folhjws that glucosazone and fructosazone are identical in all respects. The osazone is formed however more rapidly from fructose than from glucose, and this difference in rate of formation may be used to distinguish the two sugars, provided the reactions are carried out under strictly parallel conditions (pp. 138, 338). 

Configurations of the D series of al doses containing three through six carbon atoms... 

Glycine is the simplest ammo acid and the only one m Table 27 1 that is achiral The a carbon atom is a chirality center m all the others Configurations m ammo acids are normally specified by the d l notational system All the chiral ammo acids obtained from proteins have the l configuration at their a carbon atom meaning that the amine group IS at the left when a Fischer projection is arranged so the carboxyl group is at the top... 

A novel technique for dating archaeological samples called ammo acid racemiza tion (AAR) IS based on the stereochemistry of ammo acids Over time the configuration at the a carbon atom of a protein s ammo acids is lost m a reaction that follows first order kinetics When the a carbon is the only chirality center this process corresponds to racemization For an ammo acid with two chirality centers changing the configuration of the a carbon from L to D gives a diastereomer In the case of isoleucme for example the diastereomer is an ammo acid not normally present m proteins called alloisoleucme... 

The bicyclic compound decahydronaphthalene, or bicyclo[4.4.0]decane, has two fused six-mem-bered rings. It exists in cis and trans forms (see Fig. 1.10), as determined by the configurations at the bridgehead carbon atoms. Both cis- and rran -decahydronaphthaiene can be constructed with two chair conformations. 

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