Epimers, structure

Table 2-1 gives the percentage or ratio of the epimers formed in a number of reductions covering a wide variety of steroids. Structures (10), (11) and (12) show typical percentages of the predominant epimer formed at various positions in 5a-,5j - and A -steroids. 

Those epimers of 1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-j8-carbolines of general structure 139, in which the hydrogen on carbon-1 of the carboline moiety is axial, are converted into the corresponding 3,4-dihydro- -carbolinium salts (141) by mercuric acetate oxidation. Sodium dichromate... 

Dezocine (30) represents a class of bridged aminotetralins possessing morphine-like analgesic properties. It appears to be roughly equivalent in potency and addiction potential to morphine. The molecule combines molecular features of precedent aminotetralins and benzomor-phans and its structure fits the classical Morphine Rule. The 1-enantiomer is the more active and the p-epimer (equatorial NHj) is the active diastereomer. 

O-Isopropylidene derivatives of carbohydrates form structural isomers from carbohydrates which themselves are epimers. Since structural isomers often fragment differently whereas epimers do not, mass spectra of these derivatives may permit interpretation in terms of stereochemistry. Although molecular-ion peaks are not observed, the molecular weight can be determined readily from a relatively intense M-CH/ peak, resulting from loss of a methyl radical from a 1, 3-dioxolane ring (12). 

Enzyme-substrate complex, 1041 Ephedrine, structure of, 65 Epibatidine, molecular model of. 332 Epichlorohydrin, epoxy resins from, 673-674 Epimer, 303... 

Ketone 13 possesses the requisite structural features for an a-chelation-controlled carbonyl addition reaction.9-11 Treatment of 13 with 3-methyl-3-butenylmagnesium bromide leads, through the intermediacy of a five-membered chelate, to the formation of intermediate 12 together with a small amount of the C-12 epimer. The degree of stereoselectivity (ca. 50 1 in favor of the desired compound 12) exhibited in this substrate-stereocontrolled addition reaction is exceptional. It is instructive to note that sequential treatment of lactone 14 with 3-methyl-3-butenylmagnesium bromide and tert-butyldimethylsilyl chloride, followed by exposure of the resultant ketone to methylmagnesium bromide, produces the C-12 epimer of intermediate 12 with the same 50 1 stereoselectivity. 

GUO Q, ZHAO B, SHEW s, Hou J, HU J and xiN w (1999) ESR study of the structure -antioxidant activity relationship of tea catechins and their epimers, Biochem Biophys Acta, 1427, 13-23. 

When the lactone silyl ketene acetal 18-1 is heated to 135° C a mixture of four stereoisomers is obtained. Although the maj or one is the expected [3,3] -sigmatropic rearrangement product, lesser amounts of other possible C(4a) and C(5) epimers are also formed. When the reaction mixture is heated to 100° C, partial conversion to the same mixture of stereoisomers is observed, but most of the product at this temperature is an acyclic triene ester. Suggest a structure for the triene ester and show how it can be formed. Discuss the significance of the observation of the triene ester for the lack of complete stereospecificity in the rearrangement. 

A further test of the stereoelectronic theory of reactivity of phosphate esters has been attempted using measurements of the rates of displacement of 4-nitrophenate from the esters (23) and (24), their phosphorus epimers, and also (25), in aqueous methanol the introduction of the 4a-Me group into the system would, it was hoped, reduce the the flexibility of the bicyclic structures and so possibly eliminate the participation of twist-boat conformations. The presence of the 4a-Me group has no effect of the rate of displacement of the axial ArO group... 

Therefore both symmetrical configurations of the hydroxy functions in the host molecule allow the helical tubuland structure. The unsymmetrical epimer anti-2,, syn-7-dihydroxy-2,7-dimethyltricyclo[4.3.1.13-8]undecane (10), the hybrid of 2 and 8, does not possess a molecular twofold axis (or pseudo twofold axis) or the conformation of C—O bonds of Fig. 5, and would not be expected to fit into the helical tubuland structure framework. Its crystal structure is indeed different, with infinite zig-zag sequences of hydrogen bonds constructing a non-including lattice 14). 

The vicinal diol of the monoterpene series, (15,2S,3/ ,5S)-(+)-2,6,6-trimethylbicyclo [3.1.1]heptane-2,3-diol (1), was converted upon reaction with methyl dichloro-phosphite into a tricyclic phosphite 2 showing a 95 5 ratio of epimers differing at the phosphorus stereocentre (Scheme 1). Its complexes with Rh(I) and Pd(II) were found to have the structures (u-Cl)2[Rh(CO)L, and ris-CL,PdL2 respectively [16]. 

We reported an extensive LIE study of 6 and 11 analogs that included consideration of the alternative amine epimers and protonation states.28 The MC simulations were initiated from the crystal structure for the complex of 8-C1-TIBO and HIV-1 RT.50 Partial charges came from RHF/6-31G CHELPG calculations for each inhibitor. The experimental data are IC50 values for the effective concentration required to achieve 50% protection of MT- 4 cells against the cytopathic effect of HIV-1.51... 

The high levels of, sy -diastereoselectivity suggest aldolization through a closed Zimmerman-Traxler-type transition structure via intermediacy of the Z-enolate. When the transformation is performed using PhSiDj, a single deuterium is incorporated at the /3-position of the product as an equimolar mixture of epimers, inferring rapid isomerization of the kinetically formed cobalt enolate prior to cyclization or reversible aldol addition. The stereochemistry of the deuterated product was established by single crystal neutron diffraction analysis (Scheme 44). 

The dehydration of cis,alumina surfaces, could readily explain the observed data ... 

Four diastereomers of 2-ethynyl-7a-hydroxy-3a,7-dimethyl-4,6-diphe-nylperhydropyrrolo[3,2-c]pyridine (58B) were recently isolated (92KGS-903). It was established by means of H-NOESY and C-NMR spectroscopy that the stereochemical differences in the structures of the diastereomers involve cis and transfusion of the rings and different configurations at C(2). In solution and in the gas phase, the corresponding ring-chain equilibrium 58A 58B was detected, with two open-chain epimers (different configurations at C—NH2). 

Stmcturally closely related is the Nocardia metabolite, siderochelin, for which the structure and relative and absolute stereochemistry were aU established by X-ray crystallography (208, 267). It is a mixture of two epimers A and B (Fig. 29, 82 and 83). Siderochelin C, with an ethyl residue (Fig. 29,84), was obtained from a different actinomycete, tentatively identified as Streptoalloteichus sp. (239). 

---