Ketones conformational stability

Schmidt reaction of ketones, 7, 530 from thienylnitrenes, 4, 820 tautomers, 7, 492 thermal reactions, 7, 503 transition metal complexes reactivity, 7, 28 tungsten complexes, 7, 523 UV spectra, 7, 501 X-ray analysis, 7, 494 1 H-Azepines conformation, 7, 492 cycloaddition reactions, 7, 520, 522 dimerization, 7, 508 H NMR, 7, 495 isomerization, 7, 519 metal complexes, 7, 512 photoaddition reactions with oxygen, 7, 523 protonation, 7, 509 ring contractions, 7, 506 sigmatropic rearrangements, 7, 506 stability, 7, 492 N-substituted mass spectra, 7, 501 rearrangements, 7, 504 synthesis, 7, 536-537... 

W=X is N=N or C=N, never if it is C=C. The ring stability of 3-furyl-carbenes conforms with this rule. Ring opening is again the main reaction in a biradical which is generated by extruding carbon dioxide from a lactone at 675°C and which then collapses to an acetylenic ketone.277... 

Based on the three-dimensional structure of CHS, we proposed that the initiation/elongation/cyclization cavity serves as a structural template that selectively stabilizes a particular folded conformation of the linear tetraketide, allowing the Claisen condensation to proceed from C6 to Cl of the reaction intermediate.14 In contrast, CTAL formation can occur either in solution or alternatively while sequestered in the enzyme active site. In either case, enolization of the C5 ketone followed by nucleophilic attack on the Cl ketone with either a hydroxyl group (in solution) or the cysteine thiolate (enzyme bound) as the leaving group results in CTAL. Similar lactones are commonly formed as by-products of in vitro reactions in other PKS systems.36 38... 

Since carbocations are structurally similar to ketones, they are discussed here. Schleyer s force field incorporates carbocation parameters, and Harris is exploring their application in conformational analysis (188). The calculated angles in a series of rigid polycyclic carbocations correlated well with ketone infrared frequencies (188a). The calculated relative stabilities among various conformers of tertiary cations of methylcyclohexane, methylcycloheptane, and methyl-cyclooctane do not contradict the limited MNR observations of these species at low temperature (188b). 

The above rules may fail if the formation of hydrogen bond stabilized conformations is not possible and other conformers without hydrogen bridging are predominant. Results for /1-hydroxy ketones with bulky a-substituents344, seemingly opposite to the above rules, could be explained on the basis of conformational considerations341. 

Dipole moments of solutes are also involved in the so-called reaction-field theory1112 which predicts generally the Gibbs energy of solvation, and from it the stability of con-formers as dependent on solvents. Besides the dipole the quadrupole moment is also taken into the calculations. For instance, conformational equilibria of cyclic halo ketones were predicted from the dipole moments of the two conformers with fair success13. However, the whole theory was criticised1415 that there is too much arbitrariness in the... 

In addition to aldehydes and ketones, a variety of other functional groups can be used as electrophiles in Reformatsky-type reactions.1-3 Among them, nitriles play a prominent role since they lead to p-oxoesters after hydrolytic work-up (the primary enamines initially formed can only be isolated when stabilized by extended conjugation or by conformational means, cf. Table 14.1, entry 4). 

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