A chiral, bis-anthraquinone-bridged cyclophane with a large specific rotation
摘要:
A wide variety of common TD-DFT methods predict that chiral cyclophane 1 should exhibit a specific rotation ranging from large ([alpha](D) similar to 1000) to unreasonably large ([alpha](D) > 1,000,000) with numerous estimates between these values. Compound 1 was prepared in two steps from 1,8-dichloroanthraquinone, and its X-ray structure showed it to be, as expected, a C-2-symmetric, roughly triangular macrocycle. Compound 1 was resolved into nearly pure enantiomers by chromatography on a chiral support, and the specific rotations of the two components were determined to be [alpha](D)(23)= +1520 and [alpha](D)(23) = -1470. These values are large, but not exceptionally so, and the wildly inaccurate TD-DFT estimates of the specific rotation of compound 1 are shown to be closely related to the failure of the same TD-DFT methods to predict accurately the absorption spectrum of 1. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
A chiral, bis-anthraquinone-bridged cyclophane with a large specific rotation
摘要:
A wide variety of common TD-DFT methods predict that chiral cyclophane 1 should exhibit a specific rotation ranging from large ([alpha](D) similar to 1000) to unreasonably large ([alpha](D) > 1,000,000) with numerous estimates between these values. Compound 1 was prepared in two steps from 1,8-dichloroanthraquinone, and its X-ray structure showed it to be, as expected, a C-2-symmetric, roughly triangular macrocycle. Compound 1 was resolved into nearly pure enantiomers by chromatography on a chiral support, and the specific rotations of the two components were determined to be [alpha](D)(23)= +1520 and [alpha](D)(23) = -1470. These values are large, but not exceptionally so, and the wildly inaccurate TD-DFT estimates of the specific rotation of compound 1 are shown to be closely related to the failure of the same TD-DFT methods to predict accurately the absorption spectrum of 1. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.