The spin–spin coupling mechanism for 5J(C-4, CHα) in toluene derivatives and its conformational applications

1983 ◽  
Vol 61 (12) ◽  
pp. 2773-2776 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ted Schaefer ◽  
James Peeling ◽  
Glenn H. Penner

It is shown that the spin–spin coupling over five formal bonds between carbon 4 and the α protons in toluene and its ring or sidechain substituted derivatives is transmitted by a σ–π mechanism. As such it varies as sin2 θ, where θ is the angle by which the α C—H bond twists out of the benzene plane, and can be used to determine the conformational preference and the barrier to internal rotation about the exocyclic sp2–sp3 carbon–carbon bond. The coupling is remarkably insensitive to ring substituents, even to those at carbon 4. Two measurements suggest that the coupling over six formal bonds between a β carbon nucleus and apara proton also represents a σ–π interaction

1982 ◽  
Vol 60 (20) ◽  
pp. 2611-2616 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ted Schaefer ◽  
Richard P. Veregin ◽  
Reino Laatikainen ◽  
Rudy Sebastian ◽  
Kirk Marat ◽  
...  

The temperature-dependent 19F nmr spectra of 2,6-difluoroisopropylbenzene yield [Formula: see text], ΔH≠, and ΔS≠ as 6.93 (5) kcal/mol, 6.1(1) kcal/mol, and −5.0(8) cal/mol K, respectively, for the internal rotation of the isopropyl group about the sp2–sp3 carbon–carbon bond. The long-range spin–spin coupling constant over six bonds, 6JpH,CH, combined with the J method gives a twofold internal potential barrier of 5.0 ± 1.6 kcal/mol at 305 K. Although in this barrier range the J method suffers from large errors, the two methods yield comparable values for the barrier height. The lineshape method is inapplicable to 2,6-difluoroefhylbenzene. The J method finds the preferred conformation and a twofold barrier of 6.0 ± 2 kcal/mol, again in a barrier region where this method is inaccurate. Relative to hydrogen, the fluorine substituents cause substantial increases in the barriers to internal rotation. Signs of the stereospecific couplings, 4JoF,CH, are determined.


1979 ◽  
Vol 57 (14) ◽  
pp. 1881-1886 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ted Schaefer ◽  
Walter Niemczura ◽  
Werner Danchura ◽  
Timothy A. Wildman

The long-range spin–spin coupling constants over six bonds, 6JpH,CH, in 3,5-dibromodiphenylmethane and 4,4′-difluorodiphenylmethane, respectively, imply that the ground state conformations of these molecules have C2v symmetry (gable conformations). In terms of a hindered rotor model which assumes a twofold barrier to internal rotation about the exocyclic carbon–carbon bond, the barrier in the dibromo derivatives is 1.1 ± 0.3 kcal/mol. A satisfactory fit to the temperature dependence of 6JpF,CH is found for a gable conformation. If the conformational properties of these molecules and of diphenylmethane are determined mainly by steric interactions between ortho C—H bonds on neighbouring phenyl groups, it seems likely that the results above are a first approximation to the conformational behaviour of diphenylmethane. Some molecular orbital calculations are in semiquantitative agreement with the conclusions based on coupling constants.


1978 ◽  
Vol 56 (13) ◽  
pp. 1721-1723 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ted Schaefer ◽  
Werner Danchura ◽  
Walter Niemczura ◽  
William J. E. Parr

The J method, depending on a comparison between observed spin–spin coupling constants over six bonds between protons on a side chain and para ring protons and those calculated by a hindered rotor treatment, is applied to the determination of the twofold barrier to internal rotation about the carbon–carbon bonds in 3,5-dichlorobenzyl alcohol and selenol. In the alcohol, the C—O bond prefers the benzene plane by 0.3 ± 0.2 kcal/mol whereas, in the selenol, the C—Se bond prefers a plane perpendicular to the benzene ring by 3.8 ± 0.7 kcal/mol. Comparison with the thiol suggests that a major component of the barrier arises from repulsive interactions, increasing as the size of the XH (X = O, S, Se) group increases.


1978 ◽  
Vol 56 (17) ◽  
pp. 2229-2232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ted Schaefer ◽  
Werner Danchura ◽  
Walter Niemczura

The long-range spin–spin coupling constants between methylene protons and ring protons are measured in 3,5-dichlorobenzylamine, 3,5-dichlorobenzyldimethylamine, and in 3,5-dichlorobenzyldimethylarsine. The couplings over six bonds are used to derive internal barriers to rotation about the carbon–carbon bond to the phenyl ring. In the above order, they are 0.3 ± 0.3, 0.8 ± 0.2, and 3.0 ± 0.5 kcal/mol. The conformation of lowest energy in the arsine is that in which the CH2—X bond lies in a plane perpendicular to the benzene plane.


2009 ◽  
Vol 87 (7) ◽  
pp. 1090-1101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fu Chen ◽  
Se-Woung Oh ◽  
Roderick E. Wasylishen

High-resolution solid-state 31P NMR spectroscopy was used to investigate a series of 1:1 silver–triphenylphosphine complexes, [Ph3PAgX]n, where X is a monovalent anion and n = 1, 2, 3, 4, or ∞. The 31P CP MAS NMR spectra reveal the number of distinct phosphorus sites in these complexes as well as the |1J(109Ag,31P)| values, which range from 401 ± 10 Hz (X = N3–) to 869 ± 10 Hz (X = SO3CF3–). The data obtained here and in earlier investigations indicate that |1J(109Ag,31P)| values for silver–tertiary phosphine complexes decrease as Ag–P bond lengths increase. This experimental conclusion is supported by DFT calculations, which also indicate that the Fermi-contact mechanism is the only important spin–spin coupling mechanism for 1J(109Ag,31P) in these complexes. In addition, the crystal structure of a silver–triphenylphosphine trifluoroacetate tetramer was determined using X-ray crystallography, and the structure of a silver–triphenylphosphine chloride tetramer was reinvestigated.


1979 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 355-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ted Schaefer ◽  
Walter Niemczura ◽  
Werner Danchura

We report the preparation and the analysis of the phenyl ring proton magnetic resonance spectra of 3,5-dichlorophenylcyclohexane and of the 2-(3,5-dichlorophenyl) derivatives of 1,3-dioxane, 1,3-dithiane, and 1,3-dioxolane. With the exception of the dioxolanes these compounds exist predominantly as the equatorial isomers. The J method is used to show that the phenyl moiety prefers the conformation in which the α C—H bond lies in the phenyl plane. The predominantly twofold barriers to rotation about the carbon–carbon bond between the two ring systems are 2.0 ± 0.3, 0.4 ± 0.2, 2.2 ± 0.3, 0.85 ± 0.3 kcal/mol for these compounds, in the order given above. The low value for the barrier in the 1,3-dioxane derivative agrees reasonably well with molecular mechanics calculations and with the results of calorimetric and X-ray studies on equatorial 2-phenyl-1,3-dioxane.


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