Mapping the Enantiomerization Routes of Triarylvinyl Propellers. Barriers to the Three-Ring Flip and the Three Different Two-Ring Flips of m-Methoxy-Substituted Trimesitylvinyl Isopropyl Ethers
作者:Elimelech Rochlin、Zvi Rappoport
DOI:10.1021/jo00093a018
日期:1994.7
E- and Z-(m-methoxymesityl)-1,2-dimesitylethenols (3a and 4a), their isopropyl ethers 3c and 4c, and 1-(m-methoxymesityl)-2,2-dimesitylvinyl isopropyl ether (2c) were prepared. X-ray structures of 3a and 3c were determined. The rotational barriers for the 3-ring flips are 18.8 (3a) and 18.3 (4a) kcal mol(-1). Each of 2c-4c display two MeO singlets and four i-Pr doublets and exist as a mixture of two pairs of enantiomers differing in helicity and in the ''up'' and ''down'' disposition of the OMe in relation to the C=C bond. The threshold process for correlated rotation around the Ar-C bonds of 2c-4c is a three-ring flip which leads to diastereomerization with helicity reversal, with barriers of 15.8-16.1 kcal mol(-1) resembling that for the three-ring flip enantiomerization of trimesitylvinyl isopropyl ether. The DNMR at the i-Pr region showed two coalescence processes. The lower barrier is for a three-ring flip diastereomerization, and the higher barrier is for the two-ring flip enantiomerization of the residual isomers where the MeO-labeled ring passes via the C=C plane. The barriers for the beta,beta'-, alpha,beta-, and alpha,beta' two-ring flips are 25.2 (2c), 23.1 (4c), and 21.1 (3c) kcal mol(-1). RIM calculations on the ground-state conformation are in reasonable agreement with the X-ray data, but in the calculated transition states the rings are distorted and the barriers differ from the observed ones. When ring planarity and o-Me group constraints are imposed, an agreement of the calculated and observed barriers is achieved. The conformation of the i-Pr group significantly affects the calculated barrier. The order of the barriers for the isomeric two-ring nip processes is ascribed mainly to different steric interactions between neighboring rings in the isomeric transition states.