{"id":745,"date":"2009-09-18T09:50:36","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T08:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/?p=745"},"modified":"2011-11-29T15:14:38","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T15:14:38","slug":"spotting-the-unexpected-anomeric-effects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/?p=745","title":{"rendered":"Spotting the unexpected: Anomeric effects"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"kcite-section\" kcite-section-id=\"745\">\n<p>Chemistry can be very focussed nowadays. This especially applies to target-driven synthesis, where the objective is to make a specified molecule, in perhaps as an original manner as possible. A welcome, but not always essential aspect of such syntheses is the discovery of new chemistry. In this blog, I will suggest that the focus on the target can mean that interesting chemistry can get over-looked (or if observed, not fully exploited in subsequent publications). Taking a synthesis-oriented publication at (almost) random entitled <em>Synthesis of 1-Oxadecalins from Anisole Promoted by Tungsten <\/em>(DOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1021\/ja803605m\" target=\"references\">10.1021\/ja803605m<\/a>) which appeared in 2008, the following molecule appears as one of the (many) intermediates.<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_746\" style=\"width: 192px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-746\" class=\"size-full wp-image-746\" title=\"anomeric-cn\" onclick=\"jmolInitialize('..\/Jmol\/');jmolSetAppletColor('yellow');jmolApplet([450,450],'load wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/ROHGEB.cif;zoom 120;spin 3;');\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/anomeric-cn.jpg\" alt=\"A cyano-substituted cis decalin\" width=\"182\" height=\"70\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-746\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A cyano-substituted cis decalin. Click for 3D<\/p><\/div>This molecule has an X-ray structure reported, as a means of confirming the stereochemistry at the various centres, and particularly at the carbons bearing a cyano group. Labelled as compound \u00a0<strong>22<\/strong> in the publication, there is no discussion or follow-up on the resulting conformation of this compound, which in fact adopts one with both cyano groups <strong>axial<\/strong> (there are three other possibilities of course, \u00a0in which the cyano groups can be both equatorial, or one axial and the other equatorial). A B3LYP\/6-31G(d,p) calculation of these conformations confirms that the di-axial isomer is indeed the most stable (see for example\u00a0DOI: <a style=\"color: #336699;\" href=\"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/10042\/to-2402\" target=\"references\">10042\/to-2402<\/a> for a digital repository entry for the calculation).<\/p>\n<p>An inspection of the \u00a0molecular orbitals for the di-axial isomer reveals that the\u00a0HOMO involves interaction of the\u00a0alkene \u03c0-MO with the \u00a0C&#8230;CN bond\u00a0(top) and the\u00a0HOMO-1 involves interaction of the oxygen lone pair with the \u00a0C&#8230;CN bond\u00a0(bottom). This sort of interaction is a classical anomeric effect!<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_773\" style=\"width: 183px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-773\" class=\"size-full wp-image-773\" title=\"anomeric-homo\" onclick=\"jmolInitialize('..\/Jmol\/');jmolSetAppletColor('white');jmolApplet([450,450],'load wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/anomeric-homo.jvxl;isosurface &quot;&quot; translucent;zoom 120;spin 3;');\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/anomeric-homo1.jpg\" alt=\"HOMO.\" width=\"173\" height=\"225\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-773\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">HOMO with alkene-cyano anomeric interaction. Click for 3D<\/p><\/div><div id=\"attachment_750\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-750\" class=\"size-full wp-image-750\" title=\"anomeric-homo-1\" onclick=\"jmolInitialize('..\/Jmol\/');jmolSetAppletColor('white');jmolApplet([450,450],'load wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/anomeric-homo-1.jvxl;isosurface &quot;&quot; translucent;zoom 120;spin 3;');\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/anomeric-homo-1.jpg\" alt=\"HOMO-1  showing anomeric interaction\" width=\"260\" height=\"217\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-750\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">HOMO-1 with O-CN anomeric interaction. Click for 3D<\/p><\/div>So what is unusual about it? Well, anomeric effects are normally described in text books and lecture courses as involving predominantly oxygen (and nitrogen) as an electron pair donor, and C&#8230;O (and C&#8230;N and C&#8230;F) \u03c3-bonds as the acceptors. The stereoelectronic alignment of course has to be anti-periplanar, and this orientation will control how the anomeric effect operates. What you may not find in the text books is a C&#8230;CN bond as the electron acceptor! But if \u00a0e.g. C&#8230;F \u00a0can be one, why not \u00a0C&#8230;CN (the cyano group is often described as a pseudo-halogen). \u00a0If you inspect the \u00a03D model above, you can see that the \u00a0C&#8230;CN bond associated with the adjacent oxygen is perfectly set up for anti-periplanar alignment with one of the oxygen lone pairs (an arrangement not possible if the \u00a0CN group had been equatorial). \u00a0The C&#8230;CN bond length (1.49 \u00c5) is indeed about \u00a00.02\u00c5 longer than one would normally expect of such a bond.<\/p>\n<p>Inspection of the \u00a0HOMO shows an almost identical interaction between the\u00a0C&#8230;CN bond and the alkene, implying that here it is the\u00a0electrons from an alkene that are the donor. This combination, of an alkene as donor and a\u00a0C&#8230;CN group as an acceptor has \u00a0(to my knowledge) never been suggested\u00a0as an anomeric effect pair. It is not as strong as before (C&#8230;CN 1.47\u00c5) and perhaps in this case, it adopts the axial position because the alternative\u00a0equatorial conformation is disfavoured for other reasons.<\/p>\n<p>But, and this is the point of this blog, the structure of\u00a0compound\u00a0<strong>22<\/strong> in the synthesis project above has some interesting aspects, which perhaps can lead to new insights and even new chemistry. \u00a0One can but wonder how many reported compounds have properties which are perhaps more interesting than their authors realize, and how much\u00a0new chemistry is lurking in the literature which has not \u00a0(yet) been noticed. With\u00a0more than 50,000,000 compounds now reported in Chemical Abstracts, there is surely lots out there to discover. However, will it be humans who will increasingly do so in the future, or automatons scouring the Semantic Web? 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