Eclipse prediction

Apply the bent-bond model to the preferred conformations of acetaldehyde and propene. Do bent-bonds maintain or remove eclipsing interactions in the equilibrium structures of the two molecules Formulate a simple rule based on the bent-bond model for predicting conformational preferences in systems containing trigonal atoms. 

The Karplus equation predicts that J is largest when the two CH bonds are staggered anti (0=180") or eclipsed (0=0°), and J is smallest when the two bonds are perpendicular (0=90"). Because of J s dependence on dihedral angle, it can be used to distinguish between isomers such as artemisin acetate and 6-epiartemisin acetate. 

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The syn TS is favored by about 1 kcal/mol, owing to reduced eclipsing, as illustrated in Figure 1.4. An experimental study using the kinetic enolate of 3-(/-butyl)-2-methylcyclopentanone in an alkylation reaction with benzyl iodide gave an 85 15 preference for the predicted cis-2,5-dimethyl derivative. 

In this section, we shall discuss the electronic factors which determine conformational preferences in CH3CH=X systems. We shall attempt to predict the relative energy of the staggered and eclipsed conformations shown below as well as its dependence upon the nature of X. 

A similar analysis can be performed for the cases where X is an unsaturated group, 1. e. C CH, H2C=CH, C=N. The microwave spectrum for the cases where X is a cyano140,141 or alkynyl group142 shows that the most stable conformation is the eclipsed one as predicted by OEMO theory ... 

The appropriate interaction diagrams are similar to that of Fig. 28. Reasoning as before, we conclude that pi nonbonded interactions favor the staggered conformation. Sigma nonbonded interactions, on the other hand, favor the eclipsed conformation. We expect pi nonbonded attractive interactions to dominate sigma interactions and the resulting order of stability is predicted to be > Cee. 

Ab initio calculations on substituted ethyl cations confirm the above predictions. Typical results are shown in Table 38. As can be seen, the eclipsed conformation is... 

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One of the most talked-about dream targets of synthesis, dodeca-hedrane (123), has been studied repeatedly by the MM method (128,235). Recent MM2 calculations (234) predict a heat of formation of 22.15 kcal/mol, incidentally equal to the average from the two previous values 45 .28 by the Allinger 1971 force field, and -0.22 kcal/mol by the Schleyer force field (26a). In the If, structure a very high strain energy is predicted by these two force fields because of the perfect eclipsed orientation of all the C—C as well as C—H bonds. Ermer calculated twisted conformations for this molecule with the CFF and confirmed that the I, structure was the GMEC (324,324a). 

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A modification of the Cram model, in which the medium sized group, M, eclipsed the carbonyl oxygen, was developed by Karabatsos5 however, it generally predicted the same product as the Cram model. In this model, which assumes two major conformations, the major product is that which is derived from attack at the less hindered side of the more stable conformer. 

The bent-bond model of the triple bond gives this bond a threefold symmetry axis and leads to the prediction that the two methyl groups in dimethylacetjdeno should be somewhat restricted in their mutual rotation, with the eclipsed configuration stable. Restriction of rotation about the single bonds in conjugated systems is also expected, and the nature of the stable configurations can be predicted from the theory described above. These systems are discussed in Chapters 6 and 8. 

In an extensive ab initio study, the preferred conformers for substituted pyrroles are predicted to be, inter alia NCCH trans and C(2)CCH cis for 2- and 3-methylpyrroles [i.e. a methyl C—H bond eclipsing the pyrrole C(2)—C(3) bond) NCCO cis and C(2)CCO cis for 2- and 3-hydroxymethylpyrroles pyramidal at nitrogen for aminopyrroles planar OH trans for hydroxypyrroles planar trans for vinylpyrroles, and planar cis (syn) for formylpyr-roles. In agreement with experiment the energy difference between the two rotamers for 3-formylpyrrole is much smaller than for the 2-isomer (79NJC473). 

Vinylfurans are again predicted as planar, with one vinylic CH bond eclipsing the furan 2,3-bond. For the 2-isomer this gives structure (50)., and for the 3-isomer, structure (51). The energy difference is again small (2.2 kJ mol f) and so are the rotational barriers... 

An increment system has been derived for methyldecalins [230] and methylated perhy-drophenanthrenes [231] by regressional analysis, because these compounds are steroid models and the increments, in fact, have proved to be of help in carbon-13 shift assignments of steroids (Section 5.2). Eq. (4.2) permits prediction of <5C using the increments A, of structural elements in position l to the carbon atom k to be considered (Table 4.9). These increments clearly indicate the configurational influence of the y substituent, decreasing for example from eclipsed via gauche to trans interactions (I , > Vq > Vt and... 

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