Anomeric effect, double

The stereoselective formation of spiroketals 242 can be explained in terms of the thermodynamic stability of the three possible products. Oxonium cation 245, formed by the condensation of ortholactone 244b and allylsilyl ether 106a, is in equilibrium with the starting materials. Spiroketal 242 also equilibrates under the reaction conditions with the other anomers. The thermodynamically more stable product 242b, stabilized by a double anomeric effect, is obtained as the only product of the reaction (Scheme 13.89) as the substituents attempt to occupy equatorial positions in the newly generated tetrahydropyran ring. 

When two functional groups are borne by the same atom, they interact to cause either stabilization or destabilization. This is the geminal effect.20 If the substituents are both strong o-acceptors and n-donors [for example a gem-dimethoxy-C(OMe)2-], a stabilization occurs.21 This is easy to understand. Oxygen, being electronegative, is a o-acceptor and o co is low in energy and is 71-donor thanks to its lone pair. Therefore, we have here a double anomeric effect ... 

Without knowing about the anomeVic effect, you would find it hard to predict which conformation is favoured, and, indeed, you might expect to get a mixture of all three. But NMR tells us that this compound exists entirely in one conformation the last one here, in which each oxygen is axial on the other ring. Only in this conformation can both C-O bonds benefit from the anomeric effect—this is often known as the double anomeric effect. 

Anomeric and double anomeric effects in phosphates The unusual stereoelectronic properties of negatively charged oxygen as a source of donor orbitals play a role in the formation of tetrahedral intermediates in nucleophilic addition/substitution at carbonyl. It also has important consequences for phosphate transfer reactions - one of the key types of chemical events in biology. 

Anticipates a late transition state such that double anomeric effect dictates cyclization stereochemistry... 

An anomeric effect is observed in 3,4-dihydro-2H- pyrans. For example, a 2-alkoxy group preferentially occupies an axial position (71DOKd96)367>. Indeed, a study of the NMR spectra of some 2-alkoxy-3,4-dihydro-2//-pyrans and their 4-methyl derivatives established that the anomeric effect was more important in the unsaturated heterocycles than in the corresponding tetrahydropyrans (72BSF1077). The axial preference of an alkoxy group is even more accentuated when the double bond is associated with a fused benzenoid ring, as in the 2-alkoxychromans. It is also of interest to note that the role of the polarity of the solvent on the conformational equilibrium is less important than for the saturated analogues. 

The anomeric effect in terms of a stabilizing effect can be illustrated by the concept of "double-bond - no-bond resonance" (14, 15) shown by the resonance structures 4 and 2 or by the equivalent modern view (16, 17) that this electronic delocalization is due to the overlap of an electron pair orbital of an oxygen atom with the antibonding orbital of a C —OR sigma bond (12). 

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. 

A should be shorter than a normal C —0 ether bond because it has a partial double-bond character due to the anomeric effect, whereas the C - 0 R bond... 

The chemical shift differences observed for these 1-fluoro-l-methyl-f-butylcyclohexanes, the cis- and rrans-9-nuomdecalins, and for 1-fluoroadamantane provide insight regarding the significant influence of conformation upon fluorine chemical shifts in fluorocyclohexanes. The relative chemical shifts of these various cyclohexyl fluorides can be rationalized simply on the basis of what is commonly known as an anomeric effect. That is, a vicinal hydrogen that is rigidly anti to a fluorine substituent will exhibit an anomeric double-bond/no-bond... 

These effects, which have also been called symbiosis, double bond-no bond resonance, clustering, or geminal or anomeric effect [54], can also be explained in terms of the HSAB principle X3C+ will be harder than H3C+ if X is hard. Accordingly, X3C+ will have a higher affinity for the hard X- than H3C+ will have [54]. 

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