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Atropisomerization of di-para-substituted propyl-bridged biphenyl cyclophanes

2012; Royal Society of Chemistry; Volume: 11; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1039/c2ob26243f

1477-0539

Jürgen Rotzler, Heiko Gsellinger, Angela Bihlmeier, Markus Gantenbein, David Vonlanthen, Daniel Häußinger, Wim Klopper, Marcel Mayor,

Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds

The influence of electron donors and electron acceptors of variable strength in the 4 and 4' position of 2 and 2' propyl-bridged axial chiral biphenyl cyclophanes on their atropisomerization process was studied. Estimated free energies ΔG(‡)(T) of the rotation around the central biphenyl bond which were obtained from (1)H-NMR coalescence measurements were correlated to the Hammett parameters σ(p) as a measure for electron donor and acceptor strength. It is demonstrated that the resulting nice linear correlation is mainly based on the influence of the different substituents on the π-system of the biphenyl cyclophanes. By lineshape analysis the rate constants were calculated and by the use of the Eyring equation the enthalpic and entropic contributions were evaluated. Density functional theory calculations show a planar transition state of the isomerization process and the calculated energy barriers based on this reaction mechanism are in good agreement with the experimentally obtained free energies.