Conformation half-chair

FIGURE 3 12 The (a) planar (b) envelope and (c) half chair conformations of cyclopentane... 

Half chair (Section 3 6) One of the two most stable conforma tions of cyclopentane Three consecutive carbons in the half chair conformation are coplanar The fourth and fifth carbon he respectively above and below the plane... 

Dioxolane also pseudorotates essentially freely in the vapor phase. 2,2 -Bi-l,3-dioxolane (128) has been shown by X-ray crystallography to have a conformation midway between the half-chair and envelope forms. The related compound 2-oxo-l 3-dioxolane (129) shows a half-chair conformation. This result is confirmed by microwave spectroscopy and by NMR data. Analysis of the AA BB NMR spectra of the ring hydrogen atoms in some 1,3-dioxolane lerivatives is in agreement with a puckered ring. Some 2-alkoxy-l,3-dioxolanes (130) display anti and gauche forms about the exocyclic C(2)—O bond. 

The 1,2,4-trioxolane ring prefers a half-chair conformation (131) the C—O—C portion of the ring forms the reference plane, and alkyl substituents prefer the equatorial positions. 

Cyclopentane is nonplanar, and the two minimum-energy geometries are the envelope and half-chair. In the envelope conformation, one carbon atom is displaced from the plane of the other four. In the half-chair conformation, three carbons are coplanar, vdth one of the remaining two being above the plane and the other below. The energy differences between the conformers are very small, and interconversion is rapid. All of the carbon atoms r idly move through planar and nonplanar positions. The process is called pseudorotation. 

The vibrational spectrum of 1,4-dioxin was studied at the MP2 and B3-LYP levels in combination with the 6-3IG basis set [98JST265]. The DPT results tend to be more accurate than those obtained by the perturbational approach. The half-chair conformation of 4//-1,3-dioxin 164 was found to be more stable than the corresponding conformations of 3,4-dihydro-1,2-dioxin 165,3,6-dihydro-1,2-dioxin 166, and of 2,3-dihydro-1,4-dioxin 167 (Scheme 114) [98JCC1064, 00JST145]. The calculations indicate that hyperconjugative orbital interactions contribute to its stability. 

No annular tautomeric equilibrium transformations in compounds of the diox-ane series have been reported yet recently (97JCC1392), however, the optimized geometries and total energies of unsubstituted isomeric 3,4-dihydro-1,2-dioxin 22 and 3,6-dihydro-1,2-dioxin 23 were calculated using ab initio 3-21G, 6-31G, and MP2/6-31G //6-31G methods. All the methods applied revealed that the total energies for half-chair conformations of 22 and 23 are approximately the same. 

The annulation of 4//-thiopyran and cyclohexane rings in 50a results in the planarity of the heterocycle and a half-chair conformation of the carbocycle (81KGS1342). On the other hand, a boat conformation of the 2//-thiopyran ring was found in the crystal of224b [91JCS(P2)2061], Other geometrical parameters were within the limits of the expected values (Fig. 2). 

The coordinated cyclohexenones react from half-chair conformations A and B in order to show a maximum of tr-overlap. The 4-methyl-2-cyclohexenone prefers, for stereoelectronic factors, the half-chair A, which leads to the ci.s-product on (2-propenyl)silane addition (path a), even if this is not the sterically least hindered approach. 

The [Pt(Se4)2]2 complex (133) has been prepared by the reduction of the platinum(IV) species [Pt(Se4)3]2 with excess borohydride.328 The X-ray structure of the complex shows that each of the five-membered rings adopts a half-chair conformation, with the platinum coordination sphere exhibiting slight distortion from a square-planar geometry.329... 

The positions of maximum energy are conformations called half-chair conformations, in which the carbon atoms of one end of the ring have become coplanar. 

The parent [5]radialene (5) has so far evaded preparation. The decamethyl derivative is, however, known, and this molecule is found to have a half-chair conformation, with approximately C2 symmetry179. There are, however, observations indicating that... 

In six-membered cyclic nitronates (e.g., in (85)) adopting a half-chair conformation, the C-6 and C-5 atoms deviate from the plane of four atoms in the opposite directions, the deviation of the C-6 atom being substantially larger (the deviation of the C-5 atom. The latter is generally at most 0.05 A). It should be noted that one six-membered cyclic nitronate adopts a half-boat conformation (data from the Cambridge Structural Database, see also Fig. 3.2 and its discussion). 

The preference of the distal attack of olefin (ethylene) on nitronate (257) could be attributed to steric hindrances due to the presence of the axial alkoxy substituent at the C-6 atom, which shields the proximal attack. These hindrances are absent in nitronate (256). However, one could suggest that for nitronate (256) adopting a half-chair conformation, the approach of olefin from the side of the C-6 atom is more shielded even if the C-6 atom is unsubstituted because considerably deviates upward from the plane of the C=N bond of the dipole in comparison to the deviation of the C-5 atom in the opposite direction (see Sections 3.3.3 and 3.5.2). It could be worthwhile to combine this approach with a consideration of the facial preference for model nitronates substituted at the C-5 atom also. 

X-Ray elucidation provided a final proof for the structure elucidation of 8-(4-chlorophenyl)-8-hydroxy-5-methyl-8/f-[l,4]thiazino[3,4-H[l,2,4]oxadiazol-3-one 49, which was obtained as a product of ring-transformation reaction <1997J(P2)2407>. This analysis revealed that the oxadiazole ring is planar, whereas the thiazine ring is in a distorted half-chair conformation with a displacement asymmetry parameter AC2 (S—G(3)) = 0.031. The structure analysis represents the first X-ray elucidation of a [l,4]thiazine ring fused to a [l,2,4]triazole moiety. 

Catalytic reduction of bridgehead enol lactone over Pd/C indicates that, indeed, the syn addition from the exo face of the bridgehead double bound establishes the relative configuration of all substituents [264], Equilibration studies performed in EtONa/EtOH also established that the ratio of the epimers corresponds to an equilibrium mixture. Under mild basic conditions (NajCOj/ EtOH), the product isomerization occurs to a very small extent. The product distribution is best understood by rapid conformational relaxation to one of the two low-eneigy half-chair conformations. The stereochemistry is established at the subsequent protonation step. This takes place with a strong preference for axial protonation from the /I face at carbon 2 to produce the most stable chair conformation (Scheme 14.12). 

More recently, Janda has described the production of a galactopyranosidase antibody in response to hapten [96]. This was designed to accommodate several features of the transition state for glycoside hydrolysis notably a flattened half-chair conformation and substantial sp2 character at the anomeric position. Some 100 clones were isolated in response to immunization with [96] and used to generate a cDNA library for display on the surface of phage (Appendix entry 7.3) (Janda et al., 1997). Rather than proceed to the normal screening for turnover, Janda then created a suicide substrate system to trap the catalytic species. 

Cyclic Esters of Phosphorous Acid.—A large number of 2-substituted-4-methyl-l,3,2-dioxaphospholans (88) have been prepared and their stereochemistry and conformations investigated by 1H and 31P n.m.r.69 Unlike the corresponding 1,3-dioxans, the tra/w-isomer (88a) is favoured in all cases, and each isomer is best described in terms of two rapidly equilibrating half-chair conformers with the 4-alkyl group pseudo-axial or pseudo-equatorial. 

The structures of the salts (131)168 and (132),159 a chelated ylide,160 and the insecticide coroxon161 have been determined. The structures of the cis- and trans-isomers of the cyclic phosphonamide (133) differed in that the cw-isomer has a half-chair conformation whereas the trans-isomer has an envelope conformation. Both compounds had hydrogen bonds of approximately 269 pm.162 The phosphadiazane (134)... 

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