作者:Robert B. Bates、Sanjeev Gangwar、Vinayak V. Kane、Kessara Suvannachut、Stuart R. Taylor
DOI:10.1021/jo00005a010
日期:1991.3
[n]Metacyclophanes 2 (n = 8-15), [n.n]metacyclophanes 3 (n = 2,5-10), and [5.5.5]metacyclophane 4 were obtained by reacting dianion 1 from 2,6-dimethylanisole with alpha,omega-dihalides. The favored conformations of these cyclophanes were deduced from their NMR spectra and molecular mechanics calculations. An X-ray study showed dimeric cyclophane 3 (n = 9) to crystallize in essentially the conformation calculated to be of lowest energy. The methoxyl groups move through the large ring rapidly on the NMR time scale when the ring is larger than 18-membered for monomeric cyclophanes 2, 16- or 17-membered for dimeric cyclophanes 3, and in trimeric cyclophane 4 with its 24-membered ring.