Cyclododecane group

Some diamines carrying very bulky substituents like cardo groups can give colorless polyimides. For example, the bis-9,9-(4-aminophenyl)fluorene (FDA) or brominated and acetylenic FDA derivatives react with 6FDA giving copolymer films62 with low birefringence (low difference between in-plane and out-of-plane refraction index) (Fig. 5.8). A new cardo diamine l,l-bis[4-(4-aminophenoxy)phenyl]cyclododecane (Fig. 5.8) reacts with different aromatic dianhydrides with formation of colorless polyimides.63... 

As we have seen, the anomeric effect confers a double-bond character to each C—0 bond of conformer D the energy barrier for a C —0 bond rotation in acetals must therefore be higher than that observed in simple alkanes. Borgen and Dale (41) may have provided the first evidence for this point by observing that 1,3,7,9-tetraoxacyclododecane (37) has a much higher conformational barrier (11 kcal/mol) than comparable 12-membered rings such as cyclododecane (7.3 kcal/mol (42) or 1,4,7,10-tetraoxacyclododecane (5.5 and 6.8 kcal/mol (43)). It was also shown that the two 1,3-dioxa groupings in 37 exist in a conformation identical to that of dimethoxymethane, i.e. the conformation D. 

Scheme 3.17 Richman-Atkins synthesis of 1,4,7,10-tetraaza-cyclododecane followed by deprotection of the secondary amine groups (80 per cent yield, OTs = OSO2QH4CH3). 19...

As part of a biomimetic study for the enzyme class II aldolase" the equilibrium was reported for the cyclen complex, hydroxo-Zn(II)-l-(4-bromophenacyl)-l,4,7,10-tetraaza-cyclododecane and the intramolecular enolate 20, formed from Zn(II) and the enolate of l-(4-bromophenacyl)cyclen. This cyclization reaction was shown to be endothermic by 8.7 kJmol. However, with an entropy of 19 JmoU K it proceeds readily enough to show facile H/D exchange from the CH2 group of the exocyclic ligand. We wonder about the enthalpy and entropy changes associated with a different choice of other polyamines and/or central metals. 

The extent of the restriction on the mobility of an azobenzene moiety covalently incorporated into higher-order unimer micelles, monitored by photoisomerization and thermal back isomerization rates, is much more pronounced in cyclododecyl domains than in dodecyl domains, which can be related to a difference in the mobility of these aliphatic hydrophobes in the microdomains (52). Cyclododecane is a rigid molecule with much less conformational freedom than dodecane because of its cyclic structure. The latter is a flexible chain that can adopt a variety of conformations. Therefore, cyclododecyl groups may be more tightly associated than dodecyl groups and form a more rigid hydrophobic microdomain. 

A Swiss group has reported on a new fragmentation mode of bicyclic enol ethers, when macrocyclic lactones are obtained vicinal a-hydroperoxytetra-hydropyranyl ethers (33) annelated to cyclododecane, prepared via the corresponding cyclododecanone enol ethers, are smoothly converted homolytically into a mixture of macrocyclic lactones. This fragmentation has been developed to provide an economically feasible synthesis of exaltolide (34). 

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