chapter 4 alkanes & cycloalkane conformations
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Chapter 4 Alkanes & Cycloalkane Conformations. Conformations of Alkanes: Rotation about Carbon–Carbon Bonds . Conformational Analysis Drawing Acyclic Molecules. Newman Projections. Conformational Analysis Drawing Acyclic Molecules. Sawhorse Drawings. Question. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Chapter 4
Alkanes & Cycloalkane
Conformations
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Conformations of Alkanes: Rotation about Carbon–Carbon Bonds
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Conformational AnalysisDrawing Acyclic Molecules
• Newman Projections
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Conformational Analysis Drawing Acyclic Molecules
• Sawhorse Drawings
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Which of the following is a Newman projection of the following structure?
Question
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• Torsional strain: repulsion between pairs of bonding electrons
• A staggered conformer is more stable than an eclipsed conformer
Different Conformations of Ethane
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Conformations of n-Butane• Steric strain: repulsion between the electron clouds of atoms or groups
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Which of the following is the lowest in energy?
Question
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Cycloalkanes: Ring Strain
• Angle strain results when bond angles deviate from the ideal 109.5° bond angle
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The Shapes of Cycloalkanes:Planar or Nonplanar?
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•Assumed cycloalkanes were planar polygons.•Believed distortion of bond angles from 109.5° gives angle strain to some cycloalkanes.• One for two is great in baseball.
Adolf von Baeyer (19th century)
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Types of Strain
• Torsional strain strain that results from eclipsed
bonds (measure of the dihedral angle)
• Van der Waals strain or (Steric strain)strain that results from atoms being
too close together.
• Angle strain results from distortion of bond angles from normal values, for a
tetrahedron 109.5o
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• Can be explained using VSEPR theory or molecular orbital theory.
• In the favored staggered conformation, the bonding and antibonding MOs of neighboring carbons overlap but atoms do not overlap.
TORSIONAL STRAIN
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Measuring Strain in Cycloalkanes
•Heats of combustion can be used to comparestabilities of isomers.
•But cyclopropane, cyclobutane, etc. are not isomers.
•All heats of combustion increase as the numberof carbon atoms increase.
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Measuring Strain in Cycloalkanes
•Therefore, divide heats of combustion by number of carbons and compare heats of combustion on a "per CH2 group" basis.
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•Cycloalkane kJ/mol Per CH2
•Cyclopropane 2,091 697•Cyclobutane 2,721 681•Cyclopentane 3,291 658•Cyclohexane 3,920 653•Cycloheptane 4,599 657•Cyclooctane 5,267 658•Cyclononane 5,933 659•Cyclodecane 6,587 659
Heats of Combustion in Cycloalkanes
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•Cycloalkane kJ/mol Per CH2
•According to Baeyer, cyclopentane should•have less angle strain than cyclohexane.•Cyclopentane 3,291 658•Cyclohexane 3,920 653•The heat of combustion per CH2 group is•less for cyclohexane than for cyclopentane.•Therefore, cyclohexane has less strain than•cyclopentane.
Heats of Combustion in Cycloalkanes
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• Cyclopropane is 44 kJ/mol less stable than cyclohexane per CH2 group. It is highly strained and very reactive due to:
1. Angle strain:• Bond angles of 60° cause
electron pair repulsion in adjacent bonds
• Inefficient sigma bond overlap
2. Torsional strain:• Eclipsing C–H bonds all the
way around the ring—see Newman projection
Cyclic Alkanes – Cyclopropane
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• Cyclobutane is 27 kJ/mol less stable than cyclohexane per CH2 group. It is also strained and reactive:
1. Angle strain results from bond angles of 88°, although it is not as severe as the 60° angles in cyclopropane.
2. Slight torsional strain results because adjacent C–H bonds are neither fully eclipsed nor fully staggered.
Cyclic Alkanes – Cyclobutane
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• Cyclopentane is only 5 kJ/mol less stable than cyclohexane per CH2 group:
1. Angles are close to the optimal value.2. Identify the minimal but significant torsional strain in the
structure. It is very helpful to use a handheld model.
Cyclic Alkanes – Cyclopentane
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•Heat of combustion suggests that angle strain is unimportant in cyclohexane.
•Tetrahedral bond angles require nonplanar geometries.
• The chair and boat conformations.
Conformations of Cyclohexane
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• Cyclohexane is considered to have ZERO ring strain in its optimal conformation, the CHAIR:
1. No angle strain—angles must be 109.5°.2. No torsional strain—all adjacent C–H bonds must be
staggered.
Cyclic Alkanes – Cyclohexane
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• Other conformations of hexane exist but are a bit less stable. Consider THE BOAT.
1. No angle strain—angles are 109.5°.2. Torsional strain:
• Use a molecular model to identify all four pairs of eclipsing C–H bonds
• Draw a Newman projection that illustrates the torsional strain
3. Steric strain—flagpole interactions. WHERE?
Cyclic Alkanes – Cyclohexane
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• The chair conformation of cyclohexane is free of strain
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• All of the bonds are staggered and the bond angles at carbon are close to tetrahedral.
Chair is the most stable conformation of
cyclohexane
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• All of the bond angles are close to tetrahedral but close contact between flagpole hydrogens causes strain in boat.
180 pm
Boat conformation is less stable than the chair
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• Eclipsed bonds bonds gives torsional strain to boat.
Boat conformation is less stable than the chair
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• Less van der Waals strain and less torsional strain in skew boat.
Boat Skew or Twist Boat
Skew boat is slightly more stable than boat
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•The chair conformation of cyclohexane is themost stable conformation and derivativesof cyclohexane almost always exist in the chair conformation
Generalization
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Axial and Equatorial Bonds in Cyclohexane
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Drawing Cyclohexane
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The 12 bonds to the ring can be divided into two sets of 6.
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Axial bonds point "north and south"
6 Bonds are axial
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The 12 bonds to the ring can be divided into two sets of 6.
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Equatorial bonds lie along the equator
6 Bonds are equatorial
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Conformational Inversion
(Ring-Flipping) in Cyclohexane
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•chair-chair interconversion (ring-flipping)•rapid process (activation energy = 45
kJ/mol)•all axial bonds become equatorial and vice
versa
Conformational Inversion
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Half-chair
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Half-chair
Skewboat
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Half-chair
Skewboat
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Half-chair
Skewboat
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45 kJ/mol
45 kJ/mol
23 kJ/mol
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The Conformations of Cyclohexane and Their Energies
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•most stable conformation is chair•substituent is more stable when
equatorial
Conformational Analysis of
Monosubstituted Cyclohexanes
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Steric Strain of 1,3-Diaxial Interaction in Methylcyclohexane
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5% 95%• Chair chair interconversion occurs, but at any
instant 95% of the molecules have their methyl group equatorial.
• An axial methyl group is more crowded than an equatorial one.
MethylcyclohexaneCH3
CH3
axial
equatorial
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5% 95%• Hydrogen atoms closer than 2.4 Angstroms will cause
steric strain.• This is called a "1,3-diaxial repulsion" a type of van
der Waals strain or Steric strain.
Methylcyclohexane
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40% 60%
• Crowding is less pronounced with a "small" substituent such as fluorine.
• Size of substituent is related to its branching.
FluorocyclohexaneF
F
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Less than 0.01% Greater than 99.99%
• Crowding is more pronounced with a "bulky" substituent such as tert-butyl.
• tert-Butyl is highly branched.
tert-ButylcyclohexaneC(CH3)3
C(CH3)3
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van der Waalsstrain due to1,3-diaxialrepulsions
tert-Butylcyclohexane
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Keq = [equatorial conformer]/[axial conformer]
• The larger the substituent on a cyclohexane ring, the more the equatorial substituted conformer will be favored
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Keq = [equatorial conformer]/[axial conformer]
• The larger the substituent on a cyclohexane ring, the more the equatorial substituted conformer will be favored
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Disubstituted Cyclohexanes
Cis-trans Isomerism
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Cyclic Alkanes StereochemistryCis -Trans Isomers
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H
CH3H
CH3 cis-1,4-dimethylcyclohexane
H
H3C
CH3
Hring-flip
The Chair Conformers of cis-1,4-Dimethylcyclohexane
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1,2-disubstituted-cis-cyclohexaneStereochemistry
axial
equatorial
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Cyclohexane StereochemistryDrawings: Cis isomers & the need for perspective
Are the methyl groups axial or equatorial?What is the actual conformational shape of the cyclohexane ring?
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The Chair Conformers of trans-1,4-Dimethylcyclohexane
H
CH3H3C
H trans-1,4-dimethylcyclohexane
CH3
H
CH3
Hring-flip
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Cyclohexane StereochemistryTrans isomers
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1-tert-Butyl-3-Methylcyclohexane
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Cyclohexane StereochemistryCis -Trans Isomers
Position cis trans
1,2 e,a or a,e e,e or a,a
1,3
1,4
Complete the Table: a = axial; e = equatorial
e,a or a,e e,e or a,a
e,e or a,a a,e or e,a
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Consider the molecule below. What is the maximum number of methyl groups that can be in the equatorial position at the same time?
A. 0B. 1C. 2D. 3E. 4
Question
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• There are many important structures that result when one ring is fused to another.
.
• Camphor, which you smelled the first day of class, and camphene are fragrant natural products isolated from evergreens.
Bicyclic Systems
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• There are many bicyclic compounds with two fused rings.
• To name a bicyclic compound, include the prefix “bicyclo” in front of the normal name ending in -ane. For example, the compounds below could both be named, bicycloheptane.
Naming Compounds – Bicyclic Compounds
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• We know that if two molecules are not identical, they cannot have the same exact name.
The number of carbons connecting the bridgeheads is different. Count them.
Naming – Bicyclic Compounds
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1. To number the bicyclo parent chain, start at a bridgehead carbon and number the longest carbon chain connecters first.
2. Without violating rule 1 above, give the substituents the lowest numbers possible.
• Practice with SKILLBUILDER 4.5.
Naming– Bicyclic Compounds
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Conformations of Fused Rings
• Trans-fused cyclohexane ring is more stable than cis-fused cyclohexane ring. DIAMOND:
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Cholesterol
• Fundamental framework of steroids is the tetracyclic unit shown.
A B
C D
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Conformations of Fused Rings
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• There are many biologically important steroids, two related to primary sex traits are:
Hormonal Steroids