Cyclopropane chiroptical properties

Herrmann A, Ruettimann M, Thilgen C, Diederich F (1995) Multiple cyclopropanations of C70. Synthesis and characterization of bis-, tris-, and tetrakis-adducts and chiroptical properties of bis-adducts with chiral addends, including a recommendation for the configurational description of fullerene derivatives with a chiral addition pattern. Helv. Chim. Acta 78 1673-1704. 

The present chapter is largely restricted to cyclopropane derivatives as data on other compounds with a three-membered ring are lacking in the literature. Generally, chiroptical properties intrinsic to the cyclopropane system as well as substituent effects of the cyclopropyl group on chiroptical properties of other types of molecules or chromophores, respectively, will be dealt with. 

Current instruments allow CD measurements not only to be performed in the vacuum-ultraviolet (vacuum-UV) region X < 190 nm), but also in the infrared (IR) spectral region. This means that not only chiral absorption effects related to excitations of molecular electronic subsystems are amenable to experimental observations, but also effects involving excitations of the nuclear subsystems of molecules ( vibrational circular dichroism VCD) Recently, results of VCD experiments with cyclopropanes were published. Therefore, in the present chapter the discussion of chiroptical properties of cyclopropanes can include vibrational circular dichroism. Hence, the discussions of chiroptical properties of cyclopropanes will cover the spectral range extending from the vacuum-ultraviolet to the infrared region. 

Chiroptical properties of cyclopropane derivatives TABLE 6. Excited states energies of cyclopropane (112) ... 

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