Stereoselectivity Studies of the SP2 Carbon on 4-tert-Butylcyclohexylidene Analogues

dc.contributor.advisor Kiefer, Edgar en_US
dc.contributor.author Khong, Anthony en_US
dc.contributor.department Chemistry en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2014-01-15T20:20:47Z
dc.date.available 2014-01-15T20:20:47Z
dc.date.issued 2014-01-15 en_US
dc.description.abstract A study of possible mass effect on the steric course of nucleophilic attack on three analogues of 4-tert-butylcyclohexylidene has been undertaken. 1HNMR analyses have been used to determine the ratios of the trans isomers over the cis ones resulting from axial and equatorial attack of the nucleophile. The preference for axial attack is largest for the heavier brominated indandione substituent and least for the non-halogenated one. Computer simulation studies of our molecular structures were also carried out. Using PCMODEL executed on a Sun Workstation and run on Windows®, the cis and trans structures were optimized by energy minimization procedures in the program. For the minimized structures, it was found that the cis structures have higher energy values than the corresponding trans isomers. The latter is favored by further separation of the tert-butyl groups and the indandione substituent. A pyramidalization experiment was also performed using this program. This was done by displacing the 4-tert-butylcyclohexylidene portion vertically upwards and downwards by 0.1A and then calculating the energies of the structures without minimization. It was found from this study, that the energies of the molecules distorted upwards to 0.4A have lower energies compared to similar molecular structures distorted downwards. en_US
dc.format.extent ix, 78 pages en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10125/32190
dc.publisher University of Hawaii at Manoa en_US
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dc.title Stereoselectivity Studies of the SP2 Carbon on 4-tert-Butylcyclohexylidene Analogues en_US
dc.type Term Project en_US
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