Conformationally chiral center

In most common chiral molecules, chirality arises from chiral tetravalent atoms. A conformation-independent chirality code (CICC) was developed that encodes the molecular chirality originating from a chiral tetravalent atom [42], For more generality, a conformation-dependent chirality code (CDCC) is used [43]. CDCC ti cats a molecule as a rigid set of points (atoms) linked by bonds, and it accounts for chirality generated by chirality centers, chirality axes, or chirality planes. 

The value of embodies the conformation-independent 3D arrangement of the atoms of the ligands of a chirality center in distance space and thus cannot distinguish between enantiomers. This distinction is introduced by the descriptor S , , . 

The two values, e and s, calculated for all the combinations of four atoms (each one sampled from a different ligand of a chiral center) are then combined to generate a conformation-independent ckirality code, fcjcC rising Eq. (28). 

The conformation-dependent chirality code constitutes a more general description of molecular chirality, which is formally comparable with the CICC [43], The main difference is that chiral carbon atoms arc now not explicitly considered, and combinations of any four atoms are now used, independently of the existence or nonexistence of chiial centers, and of their belonging or not belonging to ligands of chiral centers. 

FIGURE 7 16 Poly mers of propene The mam chain IS shown in a zigzag conformation Every other carbon bears a methyl sub stituent and is a chirality center (a) All the methyl groups are on the same side of the carbon chain in isotactic polypropylene (b) Methyl groups alternate from one side to the other in syndiotactic polypropy lene (c) The spatial orienta tion of the methyl groups IS random in atactic polypropylene... 

Fig. 1. Conformational representation of the piperidine ring of morphine (1) and analogues meperidine (7, R = H, R = COOC2H ) and alphaprodine (7, R = R = 0CC2H ). The chiral center of interest in stmcture (7) is starred (see text).

The configuration at the chiral centers C-4a, C-5a, and C-12a determine the conformation of the molecule. In order to retain optimum in vitro and in vivo activity, these centers must retain the natural configuration. The hydrophobic part of the molecule from C-5 to C-9 is open to modification ia many ways without losing antibacterial activity. However, modification at C-9 may be critical because steric iateractions or hydrogen bonding with the oxygen atom at C-10 may be detrimental to the activity. 

In writing Eischer projections of molecules with two chirality centers, the molecule is arranged in an eclipsed conformation for projection onto the page, as shown in Eigure 7.9. Again, horizontal lines in the projection represent bonds coming toward you vertical bonds point away. 

The chiral center in 2-butyl bromide is created when Br adds to 2-butyl cation. The key, then, is to predict the enantioselectivity of this step. 2-Butyl cation exists as a mixture of three conformers planar, perpendicular A, and perpendicular B. Compare their energies and use equation (1) to calculate the relative amounts of each conformer at 298 K. Should all three conformers participate in the reaction to a significant extent ... 

Results for these CEBEs are presented in Table 1. As can be seen, for the carvone variants I-V the various substitutions have absolutely no effect at the carbonyl C=0 core, and are barely significant at the chiral center that lies between the carbonyl and substituent groups in these molecules. Only upon fluorine substitution at the tail (molecule VI) does the C=0 CEBE shift by one-half of an electronvolt the second F atom substitution adjacent to the C=0 in the difluoro derivative, VII contributes a further 0.6-eV shift. This effect can be rationalized due to the electron-withdrawing power of an F atom. Paradoxically, it is these fluorine-substituted derivatives, VI, VII, that arguably produce b curves most similar to the original carvone conformer, I, yet they are the only ones to produce a perturbation of the ground-state electron density at the C li core. This contributes further evidence to suggest that, at least for the C li... 

First, the short chain length PHAs, poly(HASCL), are composed of monomeric units containing up to 5 carbon atoms. The most well-known representatives are poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB), and its copolymers with hydroxyvalerate. Of all the PHAs, PHB is by far the most commonly encountered in nature [18]. It is the simplest PHA with respect to chemical structure, having a methylene (-CH3) group as the pendent R-unit in Fig. 1. Owing to its enzymatic synthesis, PHB has an exceptional stereochemical regularity. The chains are linear and the chiral centers all are in the R-stereochemical conformation, which implies that this polymer is completely isotactic. 

These differences reflect the conformations of (+)- and meso-isomers as they sit at the air-water interface. What is much harder to elucidate is the effect of stereochemistry on intermolecular interactions. How does changing the stereochemistry at one chiral center affect interactions between diastereomers Ab initio molecular orbital calculations have been used to address the problem of separating stereochemically dependent inter- and intra-molecular interactions in diastereomeric compounds (Craig et al., 1971). For example, diastereomeric compounds such as 2,3-dicyanobutane exhibit significant energetic dependence on intramolecular configuration about their chiral centers. So far, however, little experimental attention has been focused on this problem. 

As a result, the relative position of L1 or L2 in relation to the aromatic ring in the sp conformation can be established from the sign of the variations in the chemical shifts of substituents L1 and L2 with temperature (positive or negative A(5tit2) Assigning the configuration of the chiral center is then straightforward. 

The presence of more chiral centers in the reactant molecule exhibits a positive influence in diastereoselective synthesis. The conformation of the reactants mediates these syntheses. In addition, part of the molecules could exhibit steric or electronic effects which can amplify or diminish the diastereoselectivity. 

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