{"id":1603,"date":"2010-01-31T11:01:32","date_gmt":"2010-01-31T10:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/?p=1603"},"modified":"2010-07-26T08:22:50","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T07:22:50","slug":"the-conformational-analysis-of-cyclo-octane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/?p=1603","title":{"rendered":"The conformational analysis of cyclo-octane"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"kcite-section\" kcite-section-id=\"1603\">\n<p>In the previous post, I suggested that inspecting the imaginary modes of planar cyclohexane might be a fruitful and systematic way in which at least parts of the conformational surface of this ring might be probed. Here, the same process is conducted for <strong>cyclo-octane<\/strong>. The ring starts with planar D<sub>8h<\/sub> symmetry, and at this geometry (B3LYP\/6-311G(d,p), DOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/10042\/to-3742\">10042\/to-3742<\/a>) five negative force constants (corresponding to imaginary modes) are calculated. The most negative is non-degenerate, and gives directly the crown conformation of D<sub>4d<\/sub> symmetry (DOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/10042\/to-3738\">10042\/to-3738<\/a>). The remaining four modes comprise two degenerate pairs. Following either of the E<sub>2u<\/sub> eigenvectors downhill leads to another conformation, D<sub>2d<\/sub> (DOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/10042\/to-3741\">10042\/to-3741<\/a>), with a geometry which is noteworthy for exhibiting a pair of unusually close non-bonded H&#8230;H contacts (1.908\u00c5). This value is about \u00a00.3\u00c5 shorter than the sum of the Wan der Waals radii (DOI:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1021\/jp8111556\" target=\"_blank\">10.1021\/jp8111556<\/a>).\u00a0We can debate whether such a close approach or inter-penetration of two hydrogens is a bond or not (an AIM analysis appears at the bottom of this post).<\/p>\n<table border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th colspan=\"3\">D8h, +82.8 kcal\/mol<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Follow B<sub>2u<\/sub> 467<em>i<\/em><\/th>\n<th>Follow E<sub>3g<\/sub> 404<em>i<\/em><\/th>\n<th>Follow E<sub>2u<\/sub> 230<em>i<\/em><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>to D<sub>4d<\/sub> +0.8<\/th>\n<th>to C<sub>i<\/sub> 131<em>i<\/em> (A<sub>u<\/sub>), +7.5<\/th>\n<th>to D<sub>2d<\/sub> +3.6<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th><div id=\"attachment_1611\" style=\"width: 140px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1611\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1611\" title=\"Imaginary modes of planar cyclo-octane\" onclick=\"jmolInitialize('..\/Jmol\/');jmolSetAppletColor('black');jmolApplet([450,450],'load wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/cyclooctane-d8h.log;frame 13;zoom 5;moveto 4 0 2 0 90 90;vectors on;vectors 4;vectors scale 5.0; color vectors green; vibration 6;animation mode loop;');\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/co-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"94\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1611\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">B2u<\/p><\/div><\/th>\n<th><div id=\"attachment_1612\" style=\"width: 130px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1612\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1612\" title=\"Imaginary modes of planar cyclo-octane\" onclick=\"jmolInitialize('..\/Jmol\/');jmolSetAppletColor('black');jmolApplet([450,450],'load wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/cyclooctane-d8h.log;frame 14;zoom 5;moveto 4 0 2 0 90 90;vectors on;vectors 4;vectors scale 5.0; color vectors green; vibration 6;animation mode loop;');\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/co-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"129\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1612\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">E3g<\/p><\/div><\/th>\n<th><div id=\"attachment_1613\" style=\"width: 130px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1613\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1613\" title=\"Imaginary modes of planar cyclo-octane\" onclick=\"jmolInitialize('..\/Jmol\/');jmolSetAppletColor('black');jmolApplet([450,450],'load wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/cyclooctane-d8h.log;frame 16;zoom 5;moveto 4 0 2 0 90 90;vectors on;vectors 4;vectors scale 5.0; color vectors green; vibration 6;animation mode loop;');\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/co-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"129\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1613\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">E2u<\/p><\/div><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>C<sub>s <\/sub><span style=\"vertical-align: baseline;\">0.0<\/span><\/th>\n<th>C<sub>2<\/sub> +1.6<\/th>\n<th>&#8211;<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Following the remaining E<sub>3g<\/sub> mode leads to a stationary point of C<sub>i<\/sub> symmetry (DOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/10042\/to-3743\">10042\/to-3743<\/a>). This is a valley-ridge potential, since this point turns out to be a transition state itself, and following the A<sub>u<\/sub> imaginary mode at this point results in another, this time stable conformation, of chiral C<sub>2<\/sub> symmetry (DOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/10042\/to-3744\">10042\/to-3744<\/a>). This has a calculated optical rotation [\u03b1]<sub>D<\/sub> of 72\u00b0 (at 589nm in chloroform).<\/p>\n<p>Are these three conformations all there are? Well, a thorough analysis of the conformational space has in fact identified six minima (DOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1002\/(SICI)1096-987X(19980415)19:5&lt;524::AID-JCC5&gt;3.0.CO;2-O\" target=\"new\">10.1002\/(SICI)1096-987X(19980415)19:5&lt;524::AID-JCC5&gt;3.0.CO;2-O<\/a>), of which the most stable has C<sub>s<\/sub> symmetry (the so-called <strong>chair-boat<\/strong> conformation, and the one most frequently found in crystal structures of cyclo-octanes). Where is that one in the above analysis? It arrives by a distortion of the D<sub>4d<\/sub> form (DOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/10042\/to-3747\">10042\/to-3747<\/a>) <em>via<\/em> a transition state of no symmetry (DOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/10042\/to-3752\">10042\/to-3752<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Whilst the full potential surface clearly has many more features, following the modes of the planar conformation of cyclo-octane is a simple and rapid way of establishing four of the six limiting stable conformations (the two remaining forms have \u00a0D<sub>2<\/sub> and S<sub>4<\/sub> symmetry, see DOI <a onclick=\"var doiWin; doiWin=window.open('http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/0166-1280(88)80008-3','doilink','scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,directories=yes,toolbar=yes,menubar=yes,status=yes'); doiWin.focus()\" href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/0166-1280(88)80008-3\" target=\"doilink\">10.1016\/0166-1280(88)80008-3<\/a>).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1619\" style=\"width: 173px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/co-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1619\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1619\" title=\"co-4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/co-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"163\" height=\"233\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1619\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">AIM analysis of D2d cyclo-octane.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Finally as promised, the AIM analysis of the D<sub>2d<\/sub> conformer (above). The \u03c1(r) value at the interesting H&#8230;H critical point is 0.015, which is pretty high in comparison to most normal hydrogen bonds, and would be conventionally taken to indicate <strong>attraction<\/strong>. The Laplacian \u2207<sup>2<\/sup>\u03c1(r) is +0.05. The &#8220;bond&#8221; ellipticity \u03b5 has a value of 0.29. Single bonds are close to zero, and C=C double bonds are ~0.4, so this is pretty high (see also DOI:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1002\/anie.200805751\" target=\"new\">10.1002\/anie.200805751<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The two highest C-H stretching vibrations for this conformation are well separated from all the others (\u03bd 3095, 3103 cm<sup>-1<\/sup> for the symmetric A<sub>1<\/sub> and antisymmetric B<sub>2<\/sub> combinations, below for animations). These vibrations serve to both decrease and increase the H&#8230;H distances as part of the atomic (harmonic) displacements, and clearly doing so takes more energy than vibrating any of the other C-H bonds. It seems unlikely that the C-H bonds are themselves stronger, so does that mean that the H&#8230;H interaction is attractive or is it repulsive? In this context, it is worth noting that the symmetric vibration (both H&#8230;H distances decrease\/increase at the same time) is lower in wavenumber than the mode which decreases one and increases the other.<\/p>\n<table border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><div id=\"attachment_1611\" style=\"width: 196px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1611\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1611\" title=\"Imaginary modes of planar cyclo-octane\" onclick=\"jmolInitialize('..\/Jmol\/');jmolSetAppletColor('black');jmolApplet([450,450],'load wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/cyclooctane-d2d.log;frame 95;zoom 5;moveto 4 0 2 0 90 90;vectors on;vectors 4;vectors scale 5.0; color vectors green; vibration 6;animation mode loop;');\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/co-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"206\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1611\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A1<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<td><div id=\"attachment_1611\" style=\"width: 191px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1611\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1611\" title=\"Imaginary modes of planar cyclo-octane\" onclick=\"jmolInitialize('..\/Jmol\/');jmolSetAppletColor('black');jmolApplet([450,450],'load wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/cyclooctane-d2d.log;frame 96;zoom 5;moveto 4 0 2 0 90 90;vectors on;vectors 4;vectors scale 5.0; color vectors green; vibration 6;animation mode loop;');\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/co-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"181\" height=\"167\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1611\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">B2<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- kcite active, but no citations found -->\n<\/div> <!-- kcite-section 1603 -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the previous post, I suggested that inspecting the imaginary modes of planar cyclohexane might be a fruitful and systematic way in which at least parts of the conformational surface of this ring might be probed. 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The original course at Imperial College was delivered\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Interesting chemistry&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Interesting chemistry","link":"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/?cat=4"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/biphenyl-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":21407,"url":"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/?p=21407","url_meta":{"origin":1603,"position":3},"title":"Does Kekulene have Kekul\u00e9 vibrational modes? Yes!","author":"Henry Rzepa","date":"October 19, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Increasingly, individual small molecules are having their structures imaged using STM, including cyclo[18]carbon that I recently discussed. The latest one receiving such treatment is Kekulene. As with cyclo[18]carbon, the point of interest was which of the two resonance structures shown below most closely resembled the measured structure. 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