Piperidines, 4-spiro-, conformation

X-Ray diffraction analyses of vincristine methiodide (39) and vinzoli-dine 1-naphthalene sulfonate (40) provide atomic coordinates of compounds that are either modified in the velbanamine portion (alkylation at N-6, Fig. 3) or in the vindoline portion (a spiro-fused oxazolidinedione at C-3 and C-23, Fig. 4). These structures show a chair-boat conformation for ring C with C-8 exhibiting an endo pucker. Ring D is clearly in a chair conformation, but, in contrast to the conclusions drawn from C-NMR studies, the N-6 -C-7 bond is axial relative to the piperidine ring. 

The dipole moments of the two conformers 146 and 147 of 1-rm-butyl-piperidine-4-spiro-4 (l, 3 -dioxolan) were calculated by vector addition of the moments of 1-fert-butylpiperidine and 4,4-dimethyl-1,3-dioxolan, making reasonable assumptions regarding geometries. This gave 1.15 and 1.93 D as the moments of the two conformers. The observed moment of 1.47 D gave AG° of 0.37 kcal mol-1 in favor of the axial oxygen conformer 146 in cyclohexane solution. AG%2- of 0.26 kcal mol-1 was estimated from low-temperature H-NMR studies.121 The differences between the piperidine and... 

Synthesis, opiate receptor binding, analgetic activity and conformational studies of spiro-[tetralin-l,4 -piperidines]... 

Tropane-3-spiro-4 -imidazol-5 -one (17) has been synthesized and its structure determined by X-ray crystallography the piperidine ring adopts a distorted chair conformation, and according to... 

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