Effects steric

Fig. XIV-3. Steric effects in the penetration of sodium cetyl sulfate monolayers by cetyl alcohol and oleyl alcohol.

Gi-op A, Wilke S and Scheffler M 1995 6-dimensional quantum dynamics of adsorption and desorption of H2 at Pd(IOO)-steering and steric effects Phys.Rev. Lett. 75 2718... 

Loesch H J and Remscheid A 1990 Brute force in molecular reaction dynamics a novel technique for measuring steric effects J. Chem. Phys. 93 4779-90... 

Detailed x-ray diffraction studies on polar liquid crystals have demonstrated tire existence of multiple smectic A and smectic C phases [M, 15 and 16]. The first evidence for a smectic A-smectic A phase transition was provided by tire optical microscopy observations of Sigaud etal [17] on binary mixtures of two smectogens. Different stmctures exist due to tire competing effects of dipolar interactions (which can lead to alternating head-tail or interdigitated stmctures) and steric effects (which lead to a layer period equal to tire molecular lengtli). These... 

Figure 3-6. a) The charge distribution, b) the inductive effect, and c) the resonance effect, d) the polarizability effect, e) the steric effect, and f) the stereoelectronic effect,... 

Taft then noted that the tetrahedral intermediates of both reactions differ by only two protons, suggesting that the steric effect in both reactions is expected to be the same. Taking the difference in these reaction rates, thus allowed the quantification of the inductive effect. 

R.W. Taft, Steric Effects in Organic Chemistry, M.S. Newman (Ed.), Wiley, New York, 1956. 

This basic LFER approach has later been extended to the more general concept of fragmentation. Molecules are dissected into substructures and each substructure is seen to contribute a constant inaement to the free-energy based property. The promise of strict linearity does not hold true in most cases, so corrections have to be applied in the majority of methods based on a fragmentation approach. Correction terms are often related to long range interactions such as resonance or steric effects. 

The solubility of a compound is thus affected by many factors the state of the solute, the relative aromatic and aliphatic degree of the molecules, the size and shape of the molecules, the polarity of the molecule, steric effects, and the ability of some groups to participate in hydrogen bonding. In order to predict solubility accurately, all these factors correlated with solubility should be represented numerically by descriptors derived from the structure of the molecule or from experimental observations. 

L1948. Steric Effects. I. Van der Waals Potential Energy Curves. Journal of Chemical Physics 16 399-04. 

D-A rxns are sensitive to steric effects of the dienephiles, particularly at the I- and 2-postions. Steric bulk at the I-position may prevent approach of the dienophile while steric bulk at the 2-position may prevent the diene from adopting the s-cis conformation. 

If, on the other hand, the encounter pair were an oriented structure, positional selectivity could be retained for a different reason and in a different quantitative sense. Thus, a monosubstituted benzene derivative in which the substituent was sufficiently powerfully activating would react with the electrophile to give three different encounter pairs two of these would more readily proceed to the substitution products than to the starting materials, whilst the third might more readily break up than go to products. In the limit the first two would be giving substitution at the encounter rate and, in the absence of steric effects, products in the statistical ratio whilst the third would not. If we consider particular cases, there is nothing in the rather inadequate data available to discourage the view that, for example, in the cases of toluene or phenol, which in sulphuric acid are nitrated at or near the encounter rate, the... 

The importance of a primary steric effect in the nitration of alkyl-benzenes has been mentioned ( 9.1.1). The idea was first introduced by Le Fevre to account for the fact that -alkyltoluenes (alkyl = Et, -Pr,68a t-Bu ) are nitrated mainly adjacent to the methyl group. Without the rate data reported for the alkylbenzenes the effect might equally well have been accounted for by hyperconjugation. 

Davies and Warren have investigated the nitration of naphthalene, ace-naphthene and eight dimethylnaphthalenes in acetic anhydride at o °C. Rates relative to naphthalene were determined by the competition method, and the nitro-isomers formed were separated by chromatographic and identified by spectrophotometric means. The results, which are summarised in the table, were discussed in terms of various steric effects, and the applicability of the additivity rule was examined. For the latter purpose use was made of the data of Alcorn and Wells (table 10.2) relating to the nitration of monomethyl-naphthalenes at 25 °C. The additivity rule was found to have only limited utility, and it was suggested that the discrepancies might be due in part to the... 

Regioselectivity in FGIs is dominated by the pattern of substituents and by steric effects in the substrate as well as by the choice of appropriate reagents. 

The roles of phosphines are not clearly understood and are unpredictable. Therefore, in surveying optimum conditions of catalytic reactions, it is advisable to test the activity of all these important types of phosphines and phosphites. which have different steric effects and electron-donating properties. 

The equation does not take into account such pertubation factors as steric effects, solvent effects, and ion-pair formation. These factors, however, may be neglected when experiments are carried out in the same solvent at the same temperature and concentration for an homogeneous set of substrates. So, for a given ambident nucleophile the rate ratio kj/kj will depend on A and B, which vary with (a) the attacked electrophilic center, (b) the solvent, and (c) the counterpart cationic species of the anion. The important point in this kind of study is to change only one parameter at a time. This simple rule has not always been followed, and little systematic work has been done in this field (12) stiH widely open after the discovery of the role played by single electron transfer mechanism in ambident reactivity (1689). 

The amino group activates the thiazole ring toward electrophilic centers. This point is illustrated by the rate constants of the reaction between 2-dialkylaminothiazoles (32) and methyl iodide in nitromethane at 25 C (Scheme 23) (158). The steric effects of substituents on nitrogen are... 

If the medium is sufficiently basic to generate the arabident anion 31. mixtures of products resulting from N-nng and N-exocyclic reactivity are observed. Here again steric effects can preferentially orient the whole reaction toward one of the two nitrogens. A general study clearly delineating the rules of behavior for 31 accordine to the nature of R. the... 

The HSAB pattern may also be reversed by steric effects a Japanese patent describes the preparation of 3-(4-R-thiazolyl-2)thioallophanic acid esters (151) by reaction between 2-amino-4-R-thiazoles (4-R = H or low alkyl) and isothiocyanate formic acid ester (Scheme 96) (309). 

Steric effects of the substituents in positions 4 and 5 cannot shift the protomeric equilibrium sufficiently to permit spectroscopic observation of the thiol form (43b) ultraviolet spectra of 4-terr-butyl-5-methyl-A-4-thia2oline-2-thione (49a) in neutral solvents do not reveal any trace of the thiol protomer (49bi (Scheme 21) (70). 

Auto-association of A-4-thiazoline-2-thione and 4-alkyl derivatives has been deduced from infrared spectra of diluted solutions in carbon tetrachloride (58. 77). Results are interpretated (77) in terms of an equilibrium between monomer and cyclic dimer. The association constants are strongly dependent on the electronic and steric effects of the alkyl substituents in the 4- and 5-positions, respectively. This behavior is well shown if one compares the results for the unsubstituted compound (K - 1200 M" ,). 4-methyl-A-4-thiazoline-2-thione K = 2200 M ). and 5-methyl-4-r-butyl-A-4-thiazoline-2-thione K=120 M ) (58). 

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