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Atropisomerization Barriers of Configurationally Unstable Biaryl Compounds, Useful Substrates for Atroposelective Conversions to Axially Chiral Biaryls
- Source :
- The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 65:722-728
- Publication Year :
- 2000
- Publisher :
- American Chemical Society (ACS), 2000.
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Abstract
- Configurationally unstable biaryl lactones of type (M)-1 ⇌ (P)-1 and ring-opened 2-acyl-2‘-hydroxy biaryl compounds of type (M)-4 ⇌ (P)-4 are versatile precursors for the atroposelective preparation of axially chiral biaryls. The activation barriers of their atropisomerization process, which constitutes a fundamental precondition for the dynamic kinetic resolution, were determined by dynamic NMR spectroscopy for rapid processes and by HPLC-monitored racemization of enantiomerically enriched material for smaller interconversion rates. For the lactones, the free activation energies ΔG⧧298 increase with the steric demand of the substituent R ortho to the biaryl axis in the series H < OMe (t1/2 ≈ ms) < Me (t1/2 ≈ s) < Et < i-Pr (t1/2 ≈ min) < t-Bu (t1/2 ≈ d). The formally ring-opened 2-acyl-2‘-hydroxy biaryls, which interconvert via the lactol isomers 5 as the cyclic (and thus configurationally less stable) intermediates, have a significantly slower atropisomerization rate as a result of the high loss in acti...
Details
- ISSN :
- 15206904 and 00223263
- Volume :
- 65
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The Journal of Organic Chemistry
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........853e4ad0841588d346cd5b310abd6713