Cis configurations

The chemist can try to separate the two isomers by careful fractional distillation but it will be next to impossible to do because both the cis and the trans have practically the same boiling point. There are a few things that the chemist can do or hope for to get rid of that cis isomer. The cis configuration is less stable than the trans and may switch over to the trans configuration with a little help. The chemist can gently heat the isosafrole oil to about 150°C for an hour or so. She can also try the same heating except have the oil mixed with some acetic acid. Also, the isosafrole can be fractionally distilled to ultra purity and then be allowed to simply sit for a couple of days. Trans isosafrole may spontaneously crystalize out while the cis form remains as an oil. They can then be separated by filtration. 

So far we have represented cycloalkenes by structural formulas m which the double bonds are of the cis configuration If the ring is large enough however a trans... 

It is also used ia the preparation of biologically active steroids where the fluorine is added in a cis configuration to the double bond (13,14). 

The six coordinated titanium(IV) compounds, Ti(acac)2(X)2, where X is methoxy, ethoxy, isopropoxy, -butoxy, or chloro, all adopt the cis-configuration. This is beheved to result from the ligand-to-metal TT-electron donation (88,89). 

In a copolymer of 33% acrylonitrile, the most common composition for commercial products, the butadiene occurs in the approximate ratio of 90% trans, 8% vinyl, and 2% cis. At higher acrylonitrile content the cis configuration disappears, and at lower levels it increases to about 5% the vinyl configuration remains approximately constant (6,7). Since actual compositions of commercial nitrile mbbers are between 15 and 50% acrylonitrile, they also vary somewhat in sequence distribution and in the content of the three isomeric butadiene configurations. 

The dlenophlle, 3-acetyl-2(3H)-oxazolane, Is an attractive Intermediate for the synthesis of vicinal aminoalcohols with cIs configurations. It reacts with 1,3-dienes, even under quite mild conditions, to form (4+2) cycloadducts. Its high reactivity with deactivated 1,3-dienes Is noteworthy. This property is present also in 2(3H)-oxa201one which can be obtained easily through solvolysis of 3-acetyl-2(3H)-oxa2olone In methanol. 3-Acetyl-2(3H)-oxazolone, on UV irradiation In the presence of a sensitizer, combines easily with olefins to form (2+2) cycloadducts, the hydrolysis of which leads to the class of cis-2-aminocyclobutanols. 

The stereochemistry of the product resulting from the reaction of a 17-keto steroid with ethylidenetriphenylphosphorane is different from that of the 17-ethylidene steroids obtained by dehydration of 17a-ethyl-17/ -hydroxy compounds, Wolff-Kishner reduction of A -20-keto steroids or by sodium-alcohol or sodium-ammonia " reductions of 17-ethynyl carbinols. These latter products have generally been assumed to possess the trans configuration (C-21 methyl away from the bulk of the ring system) because of anticipated greater stability. The cis configuration for... 

The solvated phosphorane adds to the polarized carbonyl with the incipient C-21 methyl group pointing away from the bulk of the steroid nucleus. The newly formed carbon-carbon bond must then rotate in order for the tri-phenylphosphine group and oxygen atom to have the proper orientation for the elimination of triphenylphosphine oxide. This places the C-21 methyl in the CIS configuration. 

All the double bonds in rubber have the Z (or cis) configuration. A different polymer of isoprene, called gutta-percha, has shorter polymer chains and E (or trans) double bonds. Gutta-percha is a tough, hornlike substance once used as a material for golf ball covers. ... 

Protonation of the anion [SN2] by acetic acid in diethyl ether produces the thermally unstable sulfur diimide S(NH)2. Like all sulfur diimides, the parent compound S(NH)2 can exist as three isomers (Scheme 5.5). Ab initio molecular orbital calculations indicate that the (cis,cis) configuration is somewhat more stable than the (cis,trans) isomer, while the (trans,trans) isomer is expected to possess considerably higher energy. The alternative syn,anti or E,Z nomenclatures may also be used to describe these isomers. The structures of organic derivatives S(NR)2 (R = alkyl, aryl) are discussed in Section 10.4.2. 

Salts of mono-alkylated or arylated sulfur diimide anion [RNSN] (R = aryl, Bu, SiMcs) are prepared by Si-N cleavage of RNSNSiMcs with [(Me2N)3S][Mc3SiF2]. ° ° These anions adopt cis configurations with very short terminal S-N bond lengths (1.44 - 1.49 A) indicative of a thiazylamide anion, [RNS N] (5.21). ... 

The double bonds found in fatty acids are nearly always in the cis configuration. As shown in Figure 8.1, this causes a bend or kink in the fatty acid chain. This bend has very important consequences for the structure of biological membranes. Saturated fatty acid chains can pack closely together to form ordered, rigid arrays under certain conditions, but unsaturated fatty acids prevent such close packing and produce flexible, fluid aggregates. 

Polymerization of butadiene using anionic initiators (alkyllithium) in a nonpolar solvent produces a polymer with a high cis configuration. A high cis-polybutadiene is also obtained when coordination catalysts are used. 

Natural rubber is a stereoregular polymer composed of isoprene units attached in a cis configuration. This arrangement gives the rubber high resilience and strength. 

An isopropyl group on both cyclopentadienyl residues causes a further increase in the antijsyn ratio84. Cyclic fy3-allyltitanium complexes also add to aldehydes with good results85 the cyclo-pentenyl derivative, as may be expected from its enforced cis configuration, affords adducts of the syn series83. 

The presence of good leaving groups like chloride or carboxylate in a cis-configuration... 

Chrysanthemum dicarboxylic acid or pyrethric acid may exist in eight stereoisomers, owing to the trans or cis configuration on the side chain of the double bond as well as that of the cyclopropane. The natural acid has been shown to be the trans-trans acid. As in the case of the chrysanthemum monocarboxylic acid, the naturally occurring configuration is more insecticidally active than the racemic form or any of the three isomers synthesized. 

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