ISSN:
0030-4921
Keywords:
Chemistry
;
Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
The methylene protons of the ethyl ester function at C-2 in triethyl meso, cis-1,3-dimethylcyclohexane-1,2,3-tricarboxylate (A) are anisochronous, despite the apparent symmetry of structure A. The necessary diastereotopy is thought to be engendered by the central ester being stabilized in a rotamerization in which the O:C·O plane is held parallel to the general plane of the 6-membered ring while fast exchanges take place among rotamers about the alkyl-oxygen bond; other rotamers about the ester axis are thought to encounter high order repulsive steric/polar interactions with the flanking ester functions and C-methyl groups. Evidence for the axial orientation of the C-1 and C-2 ester functions in A, based on comparisons of its 1H NMR spectral characteristics with those of its RS-cis, trans and meso, trans analogues, is presented. The role of ion-pairing in the stereoselectivity of methylation of precursor enolates, leading to the formation of these three systems, is briefly discussed. A comment on the appropriateness, or otherwise, of drawing conformational conclusions from the magnitudes of the anisochrony in comparable systems is included. Triester A is thought to be the first instance where atropisomerism about an sp3—sp2 bond involving an ordinary ester function has been detected employing a prochiral sensor group.
Additional Material:
4 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mrc.1270160312
