Stereochemistry hydrogen-bonding

A significant modification in the stereochemistry is observed when the double bond is conjugated with a group that can stabilize a carbocation intermediate. Most of the specific cases involve an aryl substituent. Examples of alkenes that give primarily syn addition are Z- and -l-phenylpropene, Z- and - -<-butylstyrene, l-phenyl-4-/-butylcyclohex-ene, and indene. The mechanism proposed for these additions features an ion pair as the key intermediate. Because of the greater stability of the carbocations in these molecules, concerted attack by halide ion is not required for complete carbon-hydrogen bond formation. If the ion pair formed by alkene protonation collapses to product faster than reorientation takes place, the result will be syn addition, since the proton and halide ion are initially on the same side of the molecule. 

This process accounts for most of the observations relating to product stereochemistry, double bond isomerism, deuterium exchange and other features encountered in the hydrogenation and deuteration of olefins. 140-142,144 addition of hydrogen to the double bond proceeds in... 

The coordination chemistry of the large, electropositive Ln ions is complicated, especially in solution, by ill-defined stereochemistries and uncertain coordination numbers. This is well illustrated by the aquo ions themselves.These are known for all the lanthanides, providing the solutions are moderately acidic to prevent hydrolysis, with hydration numbers probably about 8 or 9 but with reported values depending on the methods used to measure them. It is likely that the primary hydration number decreases as the cationic radius falls across the series. However, confusion arises because the polarization of the H2O molecules attached directly to the cation facilitates hydrogen bonding to other H2O molecules. As this tendency will be the greater, the smaller the cation, it is quite reasonable that the secondary hydration number increases across the series. 

A mechanistic rationale for the observed cw-selectivity has been proposed based on preorganisation of the Breslow-type intermediate and imine through hydrogen bonding 253, with an aza-benzoin oxy-Cope process proposed. Reaction via a boat transition state delivers the observed cw-stereochemistry of the product (Scheme 12.57). Related work by Nair and co-workers (using enones 42 in place of a,P-unsaturated sulfonylimines 251, see Section 12.2.2) generates P-lactones 43 with fran -ring substituents, while the P-lactam products 252 possess a cw-stereo-chemical relationship. 

The stereospecificity of this reaction is thought to arise from retention of the stereochemistry about the alkyl radical center due to hydrogen bonding of the OH group with the ketone,... 

The 10,11-epoxide of chlorovulone I (107) was also obtained in low yield (0.05%) from the hexane extract of C. viridis [124], Its structure was assembled from spectroscopic data which showed a high degree of similarity to that obtained for chlorovulone I (100) except for UV and 1H NMR features due to the Cl0,11-olefin. Confirmation of structure came from synthesis of 107 by epoxidation of chlorovulone I. Epoxy-chlorovulone I (107) was found to possess the same 12R hydroxyl stereochemistry. The cis relationship of the epoxide and hydroxyl group was indicated by an intramolecular hydrogen bond as revealed by characteristic IR absorptions at high dilution. This 10,11-epoxide derivative... 

The chelate effect in proteins is also important, since the three-dimensional (3-D) structure of the protein can impose particular coordination geometry on the metal ion. This determines the ligands available for coordination, their stereochemistry and the local environment, through local hydrophobicity/hydrophilicity, hydrogen bonding by nearby residues with bound and non-bound residues in the metal ion s coordination sphere, etc. A good example is illustrated by the Zn2+-binding site of Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase, which has an affinity for Zn2+, such that the non-metallated protein can extract Zn2+ from solution into the site and can displace Cu2+ from the Zn2+ site when the di-Cu2+ protein is treated with excess Zn2+. 

Addition of amines to allenephosphonates yields C-phosphorylated enamines, the stereochemistry of which partly depends on the nature of R2 and R3 (147). When Ra is hydrogen, intramolecular hydrogen bonding with the phosphoryl group is possible in the Z-isomer, and indeed this is the isomer which is then produced in greater yield. The carbon-carbon double bond can be reduced with KBH4.116... 

J. W. Keller, C. Heidelberger, F. A. Beland, R. G. Harvey, Hydrolysis of syn- and anti-Benzo[a]pyrene Diol Epoxides Stereochemistry, Kinetics, and the Effect of an Intramolecular Hydrogen Bond on the Rate of. vyn-Diol Epoxide Solvolysis ,./. Am. Chem. Soc. 1976, 98, 8276 - 8277. 

In numerous complex aldol adducts it is not always possible to extract the relevant vicinal proton coupling constants. Heathcock and co-workers have recently noted that for the -hydroxy ketones and esters that exist in the preferred hydrogen-bonded conformations A and A, NMR spectroscopy may be conveniently employed to assign stereochemistry (13). 

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