Steric Interactions in Organic Chemistry: Spatial Requirements of Substituents

From the very extensive factual material available on steric interactions in organic chemistry, the present paper reviews the investigations that provide information about the “size” (“spatial requirement”) of the substituents. After an introductory section on the results obtained with the aid of spectroscopic data and by analysis of chemical reactions, attention is turned to conformational processes, including hindered rotation in ethanes, in the biphenyl system, in butadienes, multiply substituted arenes, molecular propellers, and triptycenes. The main emphasis is placed on the explanation of sterically hindered ring inversions in bridged arenes, a class of compounds particularly suitable for the study of steric interactions. The results obtained by variation of the parameters in this system are also discussed with respect to the spatial requirements of organic substituents.     

Steric effect on construction of Cu(II) complexes with pyridine carboxamide ligands

The structures of three new Cu(II) complexes with pyridine carboxamide ligands (Me₂bpb, 6-Me₂-Mebpb, and 6-Me₂-Me₂bpb) have been determined. 6-Methyl-substituted pyridyl bpb ligands produced dimeric compounds with Cu(II) ions, and weak interactions between dimers can make even polymeric compounds, while bpb ligands without 6-methyl substitution produced monomeric Cu(II) complexes. The large distortion effects of 6-methyl-substitution are shown in Cu(II) complexes with 6-methyl-substituted pyridyl bpb ligands. This result suggests that the steric effect of 6-methyl-substitution plays important role for distortion of the structure, and 6-methyl-substitution can also influence to make polymeric compounds with interactions between Cu(II) ions and neighbor carbonyl oxygen atoms. In addition, the voltammetric behaviors of the Cu complexes were examined and classified into two groups, with/without 6-methyl group. The complexes without 6-methyl group show reversible redox waves at −1.6 V, and the complexes with 6-methyl group do irreversible redox ones at −1.3 V, indicating that the presence of the methyl group of 6-position of the complex makes the reduction of the complexes easier.     

Molecular and crystal structure of ethylene acetal of <Emphasis Type="Italic">endo</Emphasis>-<Emphasis Type="Italic">endo</Emphasis>-3-trityloxymethylbicyclo[3.3.1]nonane-2-on-7-ol

Molecular structure of ethylene acetal of 3-trityloxymethylbicyclo[3.3.1]nonane-2-on-7-ol (3) was determined by X-ray investigation. It was revealed that 3 has endo-endo-configuration and adopt chair-boat-conformation. The distortion of rings was evaluated by calculation of the Zefirov–Palyulin and Cremer–Pople puckering parameters. Failure of esterification of 3 was rationalized in terms of steric hindrance and intramolecular hydrogen bonding.

Numerical study of the vortex-induced electroosmotic mixing of non-Newtonian biofluids in a nonuniformly charged wavy microchannel: Effect of finite ion size

We propose a micromixer for obtaining better efficiency of vortex induced electroosmotic mixing of non-Newtonian bio-fluids at a relatively higher flow rate, which finds relevance in many biomedical and biological applications. To represent the rheology of non-Newtonian fluid, we consider the Carreau model in this study, while the applied electric field drives the constituent components in the micromixer. We show that the spatial variation of the applied field, triggered by the topological change of the bounding surfaces, upon interacting with the non-uniform surface potential gives rise to efficient mixing as realized by the formation of vortices in the proposed micromixer. Also, we show that the phase-lag between surface potential leads to the formation of asymmetric vortices. This behavior offers better mixing performance following the appearance of undulation on the flow pattern. Finally, we establish that the assumption of a point charge in the paradigm of electroosmotic mixing, which is not realistic as well, under-predicts the mixing efficiency at higher amplitude of the non-uniform zeta potential. The inferences of the present analysis may guide as a design tool for micromixer where rheological properties of the fluid and flow actuation parameters can be simultaneously tuned to obtain phenomenal enhancement in mixing efficiency.     

Effect of steric hindrance of ketones in the dielectric relaxation of methanol+ketone systems

The reorientation activation energies of five methanol?+?ketone systems were determined from the study of the variation of dielectric permittivity with temperature between 303 to 333?K at X band frequency. The results of the activation parameters are interpreted in terms of the rotation of the molecules about the C–O–H hydrogen bond, using a previously reported conformation obtained from semi-empirical and ab initio calculations as the basic conformer. The ketones studied are acetone, 2 butanone, 3 pentanone, cyclohexanone and acetophenone.     

外围取代基团对卟啉铂(Ⅱ)配合物发光性能的影响

设计合成了具有不同外围取代基的卟啉铂(Ⅱ)配合物PtTEMP, PtTBMP, PtOMPP和PtDMPP, 并对其结构和光电性能进行了表征. 晶体结构分析结果表明, 这些卟啉铂(Ⅱ)配合物具有较理想的平面配位构型, β-位叔丁基的引入有效抑制了分子间的π-π相互作用. 外围取代基几乎不影响配合物的吸收和发光性质, 最大发射峰位于646~656 nm之间, 为配体中心的 ³π^*-π磷光发射. 空间位阻效应更强的叔丁基取代配合物(PtTBMP)的溶液态荧光量子效率和外量子效率最高, 分别为0.58和6.3%. 3个甲氧基取代的PtDMPP的发光效率优于2个甲氧基取代的PtOMPP, 二者的溶液态荧光量子效率分别为0.36和0.29, 外量子效率分别为2.4%和1.7%.     

Steric Effects in the Cl+CHD3(v1=1) Reaction (cited: 2)

A recent study has revealed a full 3-dimentional reactive scattering picture of the reaction Cl+CHD₃(v₁=1) as the Cl atoms attack CHD₃ from various directions respective to the C-H stretching bond. The reported polarization-dependent differential cross sections provide the most detailed characterization of the influences of reagent alignments on reactivity. To convey the stereo-specific information more accessible to general chemists, we show here, by proper symmetry considerations, how to retrieve from the measurements the relative integral and differential cross sections of two most common collision geometries: the end-on versus side-on attacks. The results, albeit coarse-grained, provide an appealing picture that not only reinforces our intuition about chemical reactivity, but also sheds more light on the conventional (unpolarized) attributes     

On study of sterically controlled regioselective lithiation of meta-halopyridocarboxamides derivatives

Sterically controlled regioselective lithiation of meta-halopyridocarboxamides derivatives using deuterated probes is described. A first experimental demonstration that the nitrogen is the main chelating-base approach site onto the oxazoline and N-alkoxyamide DMGs is reported.     

Displacer concentration effects in displacement chromatography: Implications for trace solute detection

In this paper, the utility of ion-exchange displacement chromatography for the concentration and enrichment of trace proteins is examined. Separations with varying displacer concentrations (1–25 mM neomycin sulfate) indicate that higher concentrations result in elevated protein concentrations, at the price of reduced yields. The results demonstrate that displacement chromatography carried out at relatively low displacer concentrations (2.5 mM) can produce significant concentration (8.5-fold) and enrichment (18-fold) of trace proteins present in the feed. Parametric simulations using the steric mass action model are carried out to investigate the concentration effects and enrichment factors observed over a wide range of feed, displacer and buffer counter-ion concentrations, and solute separation factors. The simulations confirm that trace components can be readily concentrated and enriched by displacement chromatography and that these effects will be more pronounced as the separation factor between trace and abundant components is increased. The results presented in this paper indicate the potential of displacement chromatography for improved separations where trace enrichment is critical such as proteomic applications.     

Hydrolysis kinetics of p-nitrophenylpicolinate catalyzed by schiff base Mn(III) complexes in Gemini 16-2-16 micellar solutiony

Two mono-Schiff base Mn(III) complexes (MnL₂Cl, L=L¹ and L²) were synthesized and employed as artificial hydrolases in catalyzing the hydrolysis of p-nitrophenylpicolinate (PNPP) in Gemini 16-2-16 micellar solution. The effect of different micelles and their complex structures on the catalytic hydrolysis of PNPP is discussed in detail. The observations showed that MnL₂²Cl exhibited higher catalytic activity over MnL₁²Cl under a comparable condition, which confirmed that an open active centre is essential for modulating the activities of the two enzyme mimics. Moreover, under the conditions employed, hydrolytic rates of PNPP induced by these Mn(III) complexes were faster in Gemini 16-2-16 micelles than that in the micellar solution of cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB), a conventional analogue of Gemini 16-2-16. Electronic Supplementary Material  Supplementary material is available for this article at and is accessible for authorized users.