Absolute configuration, predominant conformations, and vibrational circular dichroism spectra of enantiomers of n-butyl tert-butyl sulfoxide

Autor: Feng Wang, Afshan Dehlavi, Paolo Biscarini, Wiesław R. Majzner, Prasad L. Polavarapu, Marian Mikołajczyk, Carmelo J. Rizzo, and Michał W. Wieczorek, Joann Goring, Józef Drabowicz, Bogdan Dudziński, Minni Park
Rok vydání: 2001
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Zdroj: The Journal of organic chemistry. 66(4)
ISSN: 0022-3263
Popis: Alkylation of the alpha-carbanion of (R)-(-)-tert-butyl methyl sulfoxide (4) with n-propyl bromide afforded (+)-n-butyl tert-butyl sulfoxide (1) to which the absolute configuration (R) was ascribed. This assignment was confirmed by X-ray analysis of the complex 6 obtained from the enantiomerically pure sulfoxide (-)-1 and mercury chloride. Vibrational absorption and circular dichroism spectra of (+)-1 were measured in CDCl3 solution in the 2000-900 cm(-1) region and compared with the ab initio predictions of absorption and VCD spectra obtained with density functional theory using the B3LYP/6-31G basis set for different conformers of (R)-1. This comparison indicated also that (+)-1 is of the (R)-configuration.
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