ISSN:
0018-019X
Keywords:
Chemistry
;
Organic Chemistry
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
Temperature-dependent 1H- and 13C-NMR spectra reveal that polyhalogenated marine β-chamigrenes or synthetic derivatives thereof which are trans-diequatorially, substituted at C(8) and C(9), such as rogiolol ((-)-2), obtusol ((+)-3), and their acetates (+)-1 and (-)-4, undergo slow ring-A chair-chair inversion. Conformational equilibria and kinetics are investigated with the aid of synthetic model compounds and molecular-mechanics calculations. Thus, steric repulsions between Brax-C(2) and Heq-C(7) are seen to disfavour thermodynamically conformers 1b, 2b, 3b, and 4b, which can only be detected through cross-saturation transfer, while additional steric repulsions between Meax-C(1) and OHax-C(3) make conformer 8b of obtusol epimer so scarcely populated that it can not be detected. In agreement, with (+)-9 and (+)-10, which have a trigonal C(2), two conformers can be directly observed by NMR. The kinetic barriers, which are seen to arise mainly from steric repulsions between Hax-C(14) and the axial H or halogen atoms at C(8) and C(10), are calculated and discussed with respect to well documented exocycliemethylidene-substituted cyclohexane(ene) systems. This helps to rationalize why in rogiolol acetate ((+)-1) ring B is unusually inert towards Zn/Et2O/AcOH which causes bromohydrine-group elimination from ring A.
Additional Material:
3 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hlca.19910740411
