Group cyclic compounds

When the asymmetric carbon atoms in a chiral compound are part of a ring, the isomerism is more complex than in acyclic compounds. A cyclic compound which has two different asymmetric carbons with different sets of substituent groups attached has a total of 2 = 4 optical isomers an enantiometric pair of cis isomers and an enantiometric pair of trans isomers. However, when the two asymmetric centers have the same set of substituent groups attached, the cis isomer is a meso compound and only the trans isomer is chiral. (See Fig. 1.15.)... 

Electrocyclic reactions of 1,3,5-trienes lead to 1,3-cyclohexadienes. These ring closures also exhibit a high degree of stereospecificity. The ring closure is normally the favored reaction in this case, because the cyclic compound, which has six a bonds and two IT bonds, is thermodynamically more stable than the triene, which has five a and three ir bonds. The stereospecificity is illustrated with octatrienes 3 and 4. ,Z, -2,4,6-Octatriene (3) cyclizes only to cw-5,6-dimethyl-l,3-cyclohexadiene, whereas the , Z,Z-2,4,6-octa-triene (4) leads exclusively to the trans cyclohexadiene isomer. A point of particular importance regarding the stereochemistry of this reaction is that the groups at the termini of the triene system rotate in the opposite sense during the cyclization process. This mode... 

Mass spectrometry played an important role in the recent characterization of small cyclic sulfur imides that are formally derived from the unstable cyclic sulfur allotropes Se and S7 by the replacement of one sulfur atom by an NR group. The compounds SsNOct and SeNOct (Section 6.2.2), which are yellow oils, exhibit molecular ions of medium intensity in their mass spectra. ... 

These compounds yield, on hydrolysis, the free acids, which, like all acids containing two carbo.xyl groups attached to the same carbon atom, lose COj on heating. Thus, ethyl malonic acid yields butyric acid. In this way the synthesis of monobasic acids may be readily effected. Malonic ester, moreover, may be used in the preparation of cyclic compounds as well as of tetrabasic and also dibasic acids of the malonic acid series ( Perkin). To give one illustration malonic ester, and ethylene bromide in presence of sodium alcoholate, yield triniethyleiic dicarbo.xylic ester and tetramethylene tetracarbo.xylic ester. The first reaction takes place in two steps,... 

Benzyl alcohol may be also obtained by the action of caustic potash on benzaldehyde (see Reaction 4, p. 197). This leaction is specially characteristic of cyclic-compounds containing an aldehyde-group in the nucleus, although some of the higher aliphatic aldehydes behave in a similar fashion (Canmzzaio), 2C0H5COII -I KOII = CuII,CH,OII 4- Q,I/r,COOK. 

The best way to understand how orbital symmetry affects pericyclic reactions is to look at some examples. Let s look first at a group of polyene rearrangements called electrocyclic reactions. An electrocyclic reaction is a pericyclic process that involves the cycli/ation of a conjugated polyene. One 7r bond is broken, the other 7t bonds change position, a new cr bond is formed, and a cyclic compound results. For example, a conjugated triene can be converted into a cyclohexa-diene, and a conjugated diene can be converted into a cyclobutene. 

Open-chain and cyclic compounds containing azo groups (-N2 —), such as azoalkanes, azoarenes, pyrazolines, triazolines, etc. may also eliminate N2, but these reactions are called azo-extrusions (IUPAC, 1989 a). The terms denitrogenation and nitrogen extrusion, both used by Adam et al. (1992, 1993) and by Adam and Sengelbach (1993) should not be used. They are superfluous and ambiguous. 

Another important class of inorganic PO compounds are the condensed or polyphosphates. In these compounds, two or more phosphate groups bond together via P-O-P bonds to form chains or in some cases cyclic compounds. Although polyphosphates generally account for only a small portion of the total P present in... 

It has tdready been pointed out that some additions are syn, with both groups, approaching from the same side, and that others are anti, with the groups approaching from opposite sides of the double or triple bond. For cyclic compounds, there are further aspects of steric orientation. In syn addition to an unsymmetrical cyclic alkene, the two groups can come in from the more-hindered face or from the... 

The process proceeds through the reaction of pairs of functional groups which combine to yield the urethane interunit linkage. From the standpoint of both the mechanism and the structure type produced, inclusion of this example with the condensation class clearly is desirable. Later in this chapter other examples will be cited of polymers formed by processes which must be regarded as addition polymerizations, but which possess within the polymer chain recurrent functional groups susceptible to hydrolysis. This situation arises most frequently where a cyclic compound consisting of one or more structural units may be converted to a polymer which is nominally identical with one obtained by intermolecular condensation of a bifunctional monomer e.g., lactide may be converted to a linear polymer... 

Other cyclic compounds such as the N-carboxyanhydrides of a-amino acids,and lactams may be polymerized similarly with regeneration of an amino group at each step. According to the mechanism postulated, the number of polymer molecules formed should equal the number of initiator molecules (e.g., ROH) introduced, and the average number of monomers per polymer molecule should equal the ratio of monomer consumed to initiator. 

To summarize in contrast to the observed nucleophilic attack of strongly basic nucleophiles on the sulfonyl and sulfoxy sulfur of the three-membered ring sulfones and sulfoxides, the acyclic sulfone and sulfoxide groups are attacked by nucleophiles only with difficulty Although the precise reason for this difference is as yet not clear, it is most probably associated with the geometry, electronic structure, bonding and strain energy of the cyclic compounds. 

The best known groups of the cyclic compounds concerned are the depsipep-tides (e.g., valinomycin), the macrotetrolides (e.g., nonactin and monactin) and the synthetic polyethers (crown ethers) they are used at concentrations of 10 4-10 7 M, e.g., in decane. Valinomycin membranes show a K+ selectivity of... 

Abandoning the hunt for linear, fiber-forming molecules, he turned to polymer ring compounds. Before Carothers, cyclic compounds were so difficult to make that no one studied them, but his group had tasted scientific blood and was happily publishing papers. When they discovered a series of ring compounds that produce synthetic scents, Du Pont sold the compounds to the perfume industry. The cyclic compounds were the last of Carothers fundamental scientific studies. After completing them, he drifted for a while, unclear as to what direction his research should take. 

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