Newman representations

The sawhorse or Newman representations of 2-butanol, 5a and 5b and 6a and 6b, are excellent for showing the arrangements of the atoms in conformations, but are needlessly complex for representing the stereochemical configuration. Fischer projection formulas are widely used to show configurations and are quite straightforward, once one gets the idea of what they represent. 

Exercise 5-9 Draw a staggered conformation in both the sawhorse and Newman representations that corresponds to the configurations shown in the projection for-... 

These projection formulas can be translated into the respective Newman representations, 23a-26a. (We highly recommend that you verify this by the procedure of Figure 5-13.)... 

The Newman representation 25a or 26a of meso-tartaric acid does not have a mirror plane. Why is it different from the Fischer projections in this respect The reason is that the projection formulas represent a particular eclipsed conformation 27 of tartaric acid that does have a mirror plane ... 

Figure 7.1 shows 3-bromo-2-chlorobutanoic acid in Fischer-type, zigzag (closely related to flying wedge), sawhorse, and Newman representations. 

The answer is C. Gauche conformation is a form of staggered conformation. The conformation is Gauche if the relative separation of two substituents on adjacent atoms is 60 . The Newman representation of a Gauche conformation is shown ... 

Figure 4.6. Sawhorse and Newman representations for staggered and eclipsed conformers of ethane (CH3CH3).

Acyclic Compounds. Different conformations of acyclic compounds are best viewed by construction of ball-and-stick molecules or by use of Newman projections (see Fig. 1.2). Both types of representations are shown for ethane. Atoms or groups that are attached at opposite ends of a single bond should be viewed along the bond axis. If two atoms or groups attached at opposite ends of the bond appear one directly behind the other, these atoms or groups are described as eclipsed. That portion of the molecule is described as being in the eclipsed conformation. If not eclipsed, the atoms... 

Figure 3.6 A sawhorse representation and a Newman projection of ethane. The sawhorse representation views the molecule from an oblique angle, while the Newman projection views the molecule end-on. Note that the molecular model of the Newman projection appears at first to have six atoms attached to a single carbon. Actually, the front carbon, with three attached green atoms, is directly in front of the rear carbon, with three attached red atoms.

Conformational isomers are represented in two ways, as shown in Figure 3.6. A sawhorse representation views the carbon-carbon bond from an oblique angle and indicates spatial orientation by showing all C-Tl bonds. A Newman projection views the carbon-carbon bond directly end-on and represents the two carbon atoms by a circle. Bonds attached to the front carbon are represented by lines to the center of the circle, and bonds attached to the rear carbon are represented by lines to the edge of the circle. 

The above quasi three-dimensional representations are known as sawhorse and Newman projections, respectively. The eclipsed and staggered forms, and the infinite variety of possible structures lying between them as extremes, are known as conformations of the ethane molecule conformations being defined as different arrangements of the same group of atoms that can be converted into one another without the breaking of any bonds. 

Figure 11.18 Two conformational isomers of ethane, C2H6. (a) Sawhorse representation and (b) Newman projections.

VAN AKEN et al. 0) and EDWARDS et al. (2) made clear that two sets of fundamental parameters are useful in describing vapor-liquid equilibria of volatile weak electrolytes, (1) the dissociation constant(s) K of acids, bases and water, and (2) the Henry s constants H of undissociated volatile molecules. A thermodynamic model can be built incorporating the definitions of these parameters and appropriate equations for mass balance and electric neutrality. It is complete if deviations to ideality are taken into account. The basic framework developped by EDWARDS, NEWMAN and PRAUSNITZ (2) (table 1) was used by authors who worked on volatile electrolyte systems the difference among their models are in the choice of parameters and in the representation of deviations to ideality. 

Newman projection org chem A representation of the conformation of a molecule in which the viewer s eye is considered to be sighting down a carbon-carbon bond the front carbon is represented by a point and the back carbon by a circle. nti-man pra.i ek shan ... 

The two representations shown here are actually two different conformers of ethane there will be an infinite number of such conformers, depending upon the amount of rotation about the C-C bond. Although there is fairly free rotation about this bond, there does exist a small energy barrier to rotation of about 12kJmol due to repulsion of the electrons in the C-H bonds. By inspecting the Newman projections, it can be predicted that this repulsion will be a minimum when the C-H bonds are positioned as far away from each other... 

Let us now consider rotation about the central C-C bond in butane. Rotation about either of the two other C-C bonds will generate similar results as with ethane above. Wedge-dot, Newman, and sawhorse representations are all shown use the version that appears most logical to you. 

What is the relationship between stereoisomers 19-22 This will be clearer if we translate each of the projection formulas into a three-dimensional representation, as shown in Figure 5-13. You will be helped greatly if you work through the sequence yourself with a ball-and-stick model. Drawn as Newman projections, 19-22 come out as shown in 19a-22a ... 

Other approximations have been used to truncate the continued fraction representation. Newman and Rice have recently shown that the velocity... 

If you view the second formula from the top, you will see that it is just a three-dimensional representation of the Fischer projection. Horizontal groups at each stereogenic center come up toward you, and vertical groups recede away from you. The second formula represents an eclipsed conformation of D-threose. The third and fourth formulas represent sawhorse and Newman projections, respectively, of a staggered conformation of D-threose. 

William R. Newman and Lawrence M. Principe, Alchemy Tried in the Fire Starkey, Boyle, and the Fate of Helmontian Chymistry (Chicago University of Chicago Press, 2002), 96. For some general comments on the problematic use of laboratory images as transparent representations of real laboratories, see C. R. 

Propane is the three-carbon alkane, with formula C3H8. Figure 3-8 shows a three-dimensional representation of propane and a Newman projection looking down one of the carbon-carbon bonds. 

Figure 1.26. Double Bingel addition to C70 leads to an achiral top) and two inherently chiral (center and bottom) addition patterns. Combination of each of the latter with chiral ester moieties affords two diastereoisomeric pairs of enantiomers. The enantiomers of each pair were prepared separately by addition of either (R,R) or (S, -configured malonates to C70, and all stereoisomers were isolated in pure state. The black dots mark intersections of the C2-symmetry axis with the [70]fullerene spheroid. Next to the three-dimensional representations, constitution and configuration of the addition patterns are shown schematically in a Newman type projection along the Cs-axis of C70. Of the two concentric five-membered rings, the inner one corresponds to the polar pentagon closest to the viewer, and the attached vertical line represents the bond C(l)-C(2) where the first addition occurred. The functionalized bonds at the distal pole depart radially from the outer pentagon.

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