Issue 5, 1976

Infrared examination of rotational isomerism in alkyl furan-2-carboxylates : determination of thermodynamic parameters from infrared data

Abstract

Solutions of 66 alkyl furan-2-carboxylates in carbon tetrachloride and in acetonitrile have been examined at high dispersion in the i.r. C[double bond, length half m-dash]O region. In carbon tetrachloride one ester shows four bands, eight show single bands, and 57 show well separated doublets. With one exception, the doublets are the consequence of rotational isomerism between syn-s-trans- and anti-s-trans-forms. The higher wavenumber component of a doublet arises from the form with the higher dipole moment and the higher enthalpy: this form is very probably the syn-s-trans-rotamer. The failure of attempts to obtain reliable free energy and entropy differences reveals the shortcomings of standard approaches to the determination of energy differences between rotational isomers from i.r. data.

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J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 2, 1976, 597-601

Infrared examination of rotational isomerism in alkyl furan-2-carboxylates : determination of thermodynamic parameters from infrared data

D. J. Chadwick, J. Chambers, R. Macrae, G. D. Meakins and R. L. Snowden, J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 2, 1976, 597 DOI: 10.1039/P29760000597

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