Conformations, anomeric effect groups

Consequences of the conformational anomeric effect are largely expressed in monosaccharides and their derivatives. One recognizes the conformational endo-anomeric effect for pyranosides with a polar X group at C(l) (contrasteric electronic stabilization effect Fig. 7A) and conformational exo-anomeric effect for glycosides (acetals) in which the alkyl group of the exocyclic moiety is synclinal (Fig. 7B, C). 

Hall and coworkers54) estimated the conformational equilibrium for both cis and trans isomers of poly-6,8-dioxabicyclo[3.2.1]octane and 2,6-dioxabicyclo[2.2.2]octane by the interplay of two factors (1) the familiar preference of alkyl substituents to exist in the equatorial conformation and (2) the preference of the alkoxy group for the axial conformation (anomeric effect). The numerical parameters (kJ/mol) used for the calculations were174-175) OCH3ax - Hax, 1.9 CH3ax - Hax, 3.8 CH3ax - OCH3ax, 10 OCH - (anomeric effect), 5.4. 

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. 

For oxathiane 1, lone pair selectivity is controlled by steric interactions of the gem-dimethyl group and an anomeric effect, which renders the equatorial lone pair less nucleophilic than the axial lone pair. Of the resulting ylide conformations, 25a will be strongly preferred and will react on the more open Re face, since the Si face is blocked by the gem-dimethyl group (Scheme 1.9) [3, 15]. 

Hall et al.1 s estimated the conformational equilibrium for the structural units in the polymer of 2 using the numerical parameters determined for carbohydrates16. For a frans-l,3-tetrahydropyranoside, conformer 8 is calculated to be more stable than 7 by 9.2 kJmol-1 and would therefore occur almost exclusively (ca. 98%) at equilibrium. For a m-1,3-tetrahydropyranoside unit, the anomeric effect favors con-former 9, but its severe syn-axial interaction between alkoxy and alkyl groups would highly favor 10 (ca. 99%). 

Polymerization of 4-bromo-6,8-dioxabicyclo[3.2.1 ]octane 2 7 in dichloromethane solution at —78 °C with phosphorus pentafluoride as initiator gave a 60% yield of polymer having an inherent viscosity of 0.10 dl/g1. Although it is not described explicitly, the monomer used seems to be a mixture of the stereoisomers, 7 7a and 17b, in which the bromine atom is oriented trans and cis, respectively, to the five-membered ring of the bicyclic structure. Recently, the present authors found that pure 17b was very reluctant to polymerize under similar conditions. This is understandable in terms of a smaller enthalpy change from 17b to its polymer compared with that for 17a. In the monomeric states, 17b is less strained than 17a on account of the equatorial orientation of the bromine atom in the former, whereas in the polymeric states, the polymer from 17b is energetically less stable than that from 17a, because the former takes a conformation in which the bromine atom occupies the axial positioa Its flipped conformation would be even more unstable, because the stabilization by the anomeric effect is lost, in addition to the axial orientation of the methylene group. 

Similar results were obtained from a study of 2-phenyl-5-t-butyl-l,3 2-dioxaphosphorinane (111) in that the cw-isomer was thermodynamically more stable than the trans. However, in this case even the trans-isomer adopts a conformation (112) with the P-phenyl group and, perforce, the t-butyl group axial. A similar situation has already been noted in the phosphite (108), and it may be that the special case of a phenyl group produces some type of pseudo anomeric effect. 

Alternatively, lactols react with benzenesulfinic acid in the presence of CaCl2 to yield the sulfones, again at room temperature [307,309]. In the axial series, the bulk of the sulfone group is such that the 4Cj chair is not always the preferred conformation, and it has been shown that a twist-boat conformer is adopted in at least one instance [305]. Nevertheless, equilibration studies have shown that the sulfonyl group has a small anomeric effect and that the axial anomer is preferred [310],... 

An NMR study on the conformation of glucopyranosylammonium compounds showed that the general tendendency of many electronegative substituents at C(i) to adopt an axial conformation was prevalent in this case too, as depicted in equilibrium 36 for R groups of various sizes. These results disclaim the importance of the so-called reverse anomeric effect 404. 

The conformational energies of monosubstituted oxanes studied to date are collected in Table I. In position 2, polar substituents (except NR2) prefer the axial position other substituents prefer the equatorial orientation, which is generally the case for groups in positions 3 and 4. Destabilizing 1,3-diaxial interactions cause the equatorial geometry to be usually favored in the 2-position, the anomeric effect stabilizes the axial conformation. A large purine moiety in position 2 of oxane, for example, prefers the equatorial position because the 1,3-diaxial interactions overcome the anomeric effect (75TL1553). 

Eliel et al. (82JA3635) examined the conformational equilibria of a number of disubstituted oxanes (Table III) by low-temperature C NMR spectroscopy (830MR94) and estimated the AG° values of 3-Me and 2-C=CH substituents (see Table I). The concentration of the axial 2-Me and 4-Me conformers, however, was so small and difficult to detect by NMR spectroscopy that they were forced to employ the use of counterpoised di-2-C=CH and ds-2-CH = CH2 groups to generate equilibria that were sufficiently balanced to measure accurately (AG° values in Table I). Eliel et al. (82JA3635) also discussed the conformational energies in terms of 1,3-diaxial interactions and the anomeric effect. 

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