Tautomers conformational studies

HNMR spectroscopic studies4 have confirmed that 4-bromo-l//-3-benzazepin-2-amine exists as the 2-amino tautomer and not as the 2-imino-l,5-dihydro form as suggested earlier.42 HNMR spectral data and conformational studies on 17/-l-bcnzazepines,20 and on 1H-, 3H-, and 5/7-2-benzazepinyl phosphonates43 have been published. 

The increasing interest in C-NMR spectroscopy has resulted in a number of such studies in the imidazole field. Carbon-13 chemical shifts in a variety of solvents have been reported for imidazoles, 4-methyl-imidazole and its cation, phenylimidazoles, 1-acetylimidazole, and Fe(III) porphyrin-imidazole complexes.The influence of Mn(II) and Cu(II) on nuclear relaxation rates in imidazole has been studied C-2 appears at lowest field (136.2), while C-4 and C-5 are at 122.3 Hz. While C-NMR studies have been of some value in conformational studies,the shifts are of limited value only in ascertaining positions of tautomeric equilibrium for rapidly interconverting tautomers. ... 

The standard nomenclature for histamine is 1 //-imidazole4(5)-ethanamine. Nevertheless, (2-aminoethyl)-imidazole and /3-(4-imidazolyl)ethylamine are also used in the biological and theoretical studies. In this paper and in all tautomers/ conformers, the ethylamine group is always in position 5 in the imidazolyl group. 

Uracil, thymine, and cytosine have been studied using this technique (89JA2308 and references therein). For uracil and thymine, the dioxo tautomer predominates in the case of cytosine (70), three tautomers were detected, 70a, 70b, and 70c, the last one being the least abundant. The gas-phase tautomeric equilibrium of 2-pyridone 15a and 2-hydroxypyridine 15b has been studied by MW spectroscopy (93JPC46) using both a conventional spectrometer and a jet-cooled millimeter-wave spectrometer. The relative abundances are 3 1 in favor of the hydroxy form 15b, which exists in the Z conformation shown (Scheme 23). 

Tetracycline and several related antibiotics (aureomycin = chlorotetracycline, terramycin — oxytetracycline dihydrate) are also obtained from various species of Streptomyces, but are of very different structure, being based on the fused polycyclic arene naphthacene. The presence of five hydroxy substituents (six for terramycin) and an NMe2 group, and possibilities for various conformations and tautomers, complicate the study of their... 

In recent years the FEP method has fallen into disuse. However, as the studies outlined above show, in many cases the results obtained are in good agreement with experimental measurements. In these cases new information may be obtained, which may be difficult or even impossible to measure. Examples of this are the relative ratios of conformers in the histamine system, a detailed breakdown of the tautomers present in the guanine or cystine systems, or the acidity strengths of organic molecules such as ethane in water. In addition to this thermodynamic data, the simulations then also provide detailed information on the solvation of the species of interest. 

Unimolecular pyrolysis of the tautomers of monothioformic acid (two conformers of thiol- and two conformers of thiono-) have been studied by ab initio methods with STO-3G and 6-31 G basis sets. The barrier heights for dehydrogenation (via a four-centre transition state) and dehydrogensulfldation (via a three-centre transition state) of thiol formic acid are 67.47 and 67.09 kcalmol" respectively. Dehydration of 5-cw-HCSOH occurs via a three-centre transition state with an activation energy of 81.18 kcalmoG this is much greater than for dehydration of the s-trans form, which occurs via a four-centre transition state with a barrier of only 68.83 kcalmol" ... 

A similar series of reactions was performed on a 6-azido-6-deoxy-2-ketose.246,252 In most of the foregoing syntheses, the piperidine formed is accompanied by the tautomeric furanose. The tautomers can, however, be separated without occurrence of equilibration (which can be induced by changing the pH of the medium). For the ketose derivative 183, the equilibrium mixture includes246 compound 184 and a dehydration product (182). The conformation and anomeric effect in these piperidines have been studied by n.m.r. spectroscopy,253 and their fragmentation pathways have been determined by mass spectrometry.254... 

It has been proved by X-ray analysis that, in the solid state, 1 is the tautomer present, but the claim has been made that,68 in solution, L-ascorbic acid exists as 2. Structures 3,4, and 5 were readily eliminated by a study of the l3C-n.m.r. spectrum,88,87 and, on the basis of the chemical shifts of the carbon resonances for C-l, C-2, and C-3, and the known chemistry of L-ascorbic acid, 1 is favored over 2 in solution. Berger98 claimed that the proton-carbon-coupled spectrum of L-ascorbic acid is consistent only with structure 1. Ogawa and coworkers87 studied the conformation of L-ascorbic acid and L-ascorbic acid-5-d in deuterium oxide by 13C-n.m.r. spectroscopy, and concluded that, in... 

These spectra were routinely obtained for most of the compounds discussed in forthcoming sections. Specific studies were performed on selected compounds such as (i) (+)-(S )-4,5,6,7-tetrahydroimidazo-9-chloro-5-methyl-6-(3-methyl-but-2-enyl)imidazo [4,5,1 -jk [1,4] benzodiazepin-2(l//)-thione (9-chloro-TIBO)187 and (ii) series of metal chelates derived from l,2-dithiol-3-thion-4,5-dithiolate (dmt)188. The equilibria between 2-ethoxycarbonylthiolane-3-thiones and their (Z)-enethiol tautomers were also studied by these techniques189. It was found that the equilibrium is largely shifted in favor of the enethiols. NMR was also used to study the syn-anti conformational equilibria of seven A-(l-methoxycarbonylethyl)-A4-thiazoline-2-thiones with S conformation of the chiral rotor (43)190. A variety of substituents were used. 

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