Issue 12, 2002

Stereoelectronic substituent effects on intramolecular H-bonding in crowded o-anisic acids

Abstract

The minimum energy geometries, OH stretching frequencies, and fractional distributions of the free and intramolecularly hydrogen-bonded conformers of eleven substituted o-anisic acids were determined by density functional theory. The structural changes that are associated with formation of the intramolecular H-bond are discussed. Intensities and areas of pertinent peaks in the measured infrared spectra were used to obtain the mol fractions of the intramolecularly H-bonded conformer, in equilibrium with the intermolecularly H-bonded dimers in chloroform solution. These mol fractions follow the same order as the theoretically determined “gas phase” values. They also correlate linearly with the change in the time-averaged 13C NMR shift of the carboxyl group that is produced by a change of solvent from DMSO to CDCl3. The same solvent change leads to an increase in the size of the one-bond C–H coupling constant of the methoxy group because of the greater polarization of the its H–C bonds in the intramolecular H-bonded conformer. The solvent-induced changes in the CH3O coupling constant correlate with those of the ipsoC2-OMe shift. The latter shift changes involve opposing effects of intra- and intermolecular H-bonding of the o-anisic acids.

Graphical abstract: Stereoelectronic substituent effects on intramolecular H-bonding in crowded o-anisic acids

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
28 Aug 2002
Accepted
24 Oct 2002
First published
13 Nov 2002

J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 2, 2002, 1961-1966

Stereoelectronic substituent effects on intramolecular H-bonding in crowded o-anisic acids

I. I. Schuster, J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 2, 2002, 1961 DOI: 10.1039/B208395G

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