Large rings conformation

The number of possible conformations rises dramatically with increasing ring size. Therefore, large ring systems carmot be handled by the methods applied to small rings. However, in rigid polymacrocyclic structures for example, an overall... 

Beginning with cycloheptane which has four conformations of similar energy confer matronal analysis of cycloalkanes becomes more complicated The same fundamental principles apply to medium and large rings as apply to smaller ones—but there are more atoms and more bonds to consider and more conformational possibilities... 

Table 3 fists cycloaliphatic diamines. Specific registry numbers are assigned to the optical isomers of /n t-l,2-cyclohexanediamine the cis isomer is achiral at ambient temperatures because of rapid interconversion of ring conformers. Commercial products ate most often marketed as geometric isomer mixtures, though large differences in symmetry may lead to such wide variations in physical properties that separations by classical unit operations are practicable, as in Du Font s fractional crystallisation of /n t-l,4-cyclohexanediamine (mp 72°C) from the low melting (5°C) cis—trans mixture. 

The conformational properties of medium and large ring organic molecules have profound consequences on the stereochemical course of dimethylcuprate addition24. The addition to... 

In order to account for the ready formation of large rings, which means that the two ends of the chain must approach each other even though this is conformationally unfavorable for long chains, it may be postulated that the two ends become attached to nearby sites on the surface of the sodium. 

The predominantly syn stereochemistry of the products arising from the bicyclo[3.2.1] octyl cation IV would results from the large ring strain in II, the chair conformation of which, (but not boat) facilitate the Wagner-Meerwein type rearrangement. 

In Figure 21 two extreme cases ate presented, Colen) " in the presence of I or a large excess of Cf . With the large iodide anion, hydrogen-bonding interactions are weak and the spectra represent the free cation. The low intensity of the NH stretching VCD for ftie iodide salt indicates only a small excess of one (probably X) of the enantiomeric ring conformations over the other. 

Most, if not all of the larger size natural cyclic peptides contain one or more N-alkylated amino acid residue. Their ring conformation depends on the substitution patterns as well as on environmental conditions (crystal, solvent). As a result of the large number of energetically similar and thus allowed conformational states, their 3D structure can not be predicted with great certainty. 

Medium-sized and large ring systems often show complicated conformational interconversions involving pseudorotations in one or even more conformational families. This makes stereochemical assignments in diastereomers rather difficult. Thus, very few systematic studies have been published. The situation is improved if such rings are embedded in polycyclic systems, or if they contain double bonds, which leads to restricted conformational mobility. An example is the differentiation of diastereomeric 2,3-dihydro-lf/-benzo[6]azepines 1 on the basis of y-gauche effects and on d(13C) and 3/H H values640. 

Steric control elements are also important for the diastereoselectivity in alkylations of mono-cyclic cyclohexanone enolates. However, electronic control becomes more evident in these systems compared to monocyclic cyclopentanone enolates The flexibility of the six-membered ring system, and the large number of possible ring conformations, makes predictions of the diastereoselectivity difficult. In general, one may conclude that the diastereoselectivity in alkylations of enolates derived from monocyclic cyclohexanones is not as high as in alkylations of cyclopentanone enolates. The syntheses of compounds 21-27 demonstrate the effect of substitution in each position of the six-membered ring49,61 -7°. 

Protonated forms of the large-ring macrocycle [24]Ng02 (5) and related compounds have been shown to be active as synthetic phosphorylation catalysts in ATP synthesis. It is likely that in this case the substrate enters the macrocyclic cavity to some extent, or is enveloped by it. Evidence for this possibility comes from the crystal structure of the chloride salt of 5-6H (Figure 1) in which a chloride ion is enveloped within a cleft formed by the boat-shaped conformation of the macrocy-cle. The crystal structure of the nitrate salt of 5-4H has also recently been determined and the host again adopts a boat-like conformation as it interacts with the anion. The hydrochloride salt of the smaller [22]Ng binds two chloride anions above and below the host plane in a similar way to 1. Molecular dynamics simulations indicate that the pocket-like conformation for 5-6H is maintained in solution, although Cl NMR experiments demonstrate that halide ions are in rapid exchange between the complexed and solvated state. 

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