STERIC EFFECTS - A STUDY OF A RATIONALLY DESIGNED SYSTEM
STERIC EFFECTS - A STUDY OF A RATIONALLY DESIGNED SYSTEM
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DOI:
10.1021/ja00537a036
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发表时间:
1980-01-01
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15
通讯作者:
STERNHELL, S
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作者:
BOTT, G;FIELD, LD;STERNHELL, S
The principles for the rational design of systems suitablefor the study of steric effects are defined. A suitable molecular framework [6-(2-X-phenyl)-5-Yl, l-dimethylindan, 1] was synthesized and a study of internal rotation by dynamic NMR spectroscopy (DNMR) of 33 derivatives, differing principally in the nature of the molecular fragment (X), showed thefollowing,(i) For 1 (Y= Me; X= halogen) the rotational barriers (AG*) increase smoothly and monotonically with the van der Waals radius ofX (rx), which permits the estimation of effective rx for fragments of lower symmetry,(ii) The rotational barriers are the sum of additive contributions, designated interference values (/H" x), which can be used to predict the rotational barriers in 2, 2'-disubstituted biphenyls,(iii) A simple geometrical parameter, apparent overlap (r*)> which is related to the distortion of the framework in the transition state, is proposed and found to have an excellent linear correlation with the barrier to rotation in 2, 2'-disubstituted biphenyls,(iv) This correlation can be used for a semiquantitative estimation of rotational barriers in biaryls and other systems.Steric hindrance can be defined as the energy penalty associated with crowding of nonbonded molecular fragments. The studyof this phenomenon must therefore involve notions of size (typically defined in terms of van der Waals radii1) of the fragments, the geometry of the systems within which they interact, and the energy associated with the interaction (s). Steric hindrance forms a