摘要:
                                To determine the absolute configuration and conformation of chiral acyclic 1,3-glycols, the CD exciton chirality method has been applied to various acyclic 1,3-diesters with p-bromobenzoate, p-chlorobenzoate, or benzoate chromophore.  Acyclic anti-1,3-dibenzoates exhibit typical exciton split CD Cotton effects, the sign of which agrees with the sign of the screw sense between two benzoate chromophores in the conformation expanded in a zigzag form.  For example, the CD spectrum of bis(p-bromobenzoate) (2S,4S)-2 shows first the positive and then secondly the negative Cotton effects:  lambda-ext 252.5 nm, DELTA-epsilon +26.5 and lambda-ext 236.0 nm, DELTA-epsilon -9.1, A = +35.6.  On the other hand, syn-1,3-dibenzoates exhibit no exciton split Cotton effects irrespective of the asymmetric structure.  Instead the CD spectra of syn-dibenzoates show a weak single Cotton effect:  e.g., (2S,4R)-5, lambda-ext 238.0 nm, DELTA-epsilon -1.7.  Other 1,3-dibenzoates composed of primary and secondary alcoholic benzoates exhibit exciton split CD Cotton effects of half intensity in comparison with those of anti-1,3-dibenzoates:  e.g., 1,3-bis(p-bromobenzoate) (S)-1, lambda-ext 252.6 nm, DELTA-epsilon +13.9 and lambda-ext 235.9 nm, DELTA-epsilon -3.9, A = +17.8.  These results provided the CD method for determination of the absolute stereochemistry of acyclic 1,3-glycols.