TY - JOUR A1 - Kleinpeter, Erich A1 - Heydenreich, Matthias A1 - Koch, Andreas A1 - Linker, Torsten T1 - Synthesis and NMR spectroscopic conformational analysis of esters of 4-hydroxy-cyclohexanone-the more polar the molecule the more stable the axial conformer JF - Tetrahedron N2 - The esters of 4-hydroxy-cyclohexanone and a series of carboxylic acids R-COOH with R of different electronic and steric influence (R=Me, Et, n-Pr, i-Pr, n-Bu, i-Bu, sec-Bu, t-Bu, CF3, CH2Cl, CHCl2, CCl3, CH2Br, CHBr2, and CBr3) were synthesized and the conformational equilibria studied by H-1 and C-13 NMR spectroscopy at 103 K and at 295 K, respectively. The geometry of optimized structures of the axial 'equatorial chair conformers was computed at the ab initio MO and DFT levels of theory. Only one preferred conformation was obtained for the axial and the equatorial conformer as well. When comparing the conformational equilibria of the cyclohexanone esters with those of the corresponding cyclohexyl esters a certain polarity contribution of the cyclohexanone framework was revealed, which is independent of the substituent effects and increases the stability of the axial conformers by a constant amount. KW - 4-Substituted cyclohexanones KW - Conformational analysis KW - Dynamic NMR KW - Simulation of H-1 NMR spectra KW - Quantum chemical calculations KW - ALTONA equation Y1 - 2012 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tet.2012.01.022 SN - 0040-4020 VL - 68 IS - 10 SP - 2363 EP - 2373 PB - Elsevier CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kleinpeter, Erich A1 - Werner, Peter A1 - Linker, Torsten T1 - Synthesis and NMR spectroscopic conformational analysis of benzoic acid esters of mono- and 1,4-dihydroxycyclohexane, 4-hydroxycyclohexanone and the -ene analogue - The more polar the molecule the more stable the axial conformer JF - Tetrahedron N2 - para-Substituted benzoic acid esters of cyclohexanol, 1,4-dihydroxycyclohexane, 4-hydroxy-cyclohexanone and of the corresponding exo-methylene derivative were synthesized and the conformational equilibria of the cyclohexane skeleton studied by low temperature H-1 and C-13 NMR spectroscopy. The geometry optimized structures of the axial/equatorial chair conformers were computed at the DFT level of theory. Only one preferred conformation of the ester group was obtained for both the axial and the equatorial conformer, respectively. The content of the axial conformer increases with growing polarity of the 6-membered ring moiety; hereby, in addition, the effect of sp(2) hybridization/polarity of C(4)= O/C(4)= CH2 on the present conformational equilibria is critically evaluated. Another dynamic process could be studied, for the first time in this kind of compounds. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. KW - Conformational analysis KW - A-values of COOAr on cyclohexane KW - Benzoic acid esters KW - Dynamic NMR KW - DFT calculations Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tet.2017.04.029 SN - 0040-4020 VL - 73 SP - 3801 EP - 3809 PB - Elsevier CY - Oxford ER -