(±)Alkyl 3-hydroxy-1-azabicyclo[2.2.2]octane-3-carboxylates: conformational preferences of the alkoxycarbonyl group

Molecular mechanics, ab initio (RHF) and density functional (DFT/B3LYP) methods are applied to investigate the conformational preferences of the methoxycarbonyl group of the (±)methyl 3-hydroxy-1-azabicyclo[2.2.2]octane-3-carboxylate. ¹H and ¹³C chemical shifts are also calculated by the GIAO/DFT approach and compared with experimental values. Both theoretical and experimental data account for almost eclipsed conformations with different degrees of distortion from the ideal geometry. It is found that calculations at the B3LYP/6-311G(d,p) level are relatively more reliable to explain the behaviour of the alkoxycarbonyl moiety of 2-hydroxyesters derived from the (±)3-hydroxy-1-azabicyclo[2.2.2]octane-3-carboxylic acid.     

<Superscript>1</Superscript>H NMR spectroscopy in the study of the three-dimensional structure of 7-alkoxyalkyl-3-thia-7-azabicyclo-[3.3.1]nonan-9-ones and some of their derivatives

¹H NMR spectroscopy was used to establish that 7-alkoxyalkyl-3-thia-7-azabicyclo[3.3.1]nonan-9-ones and their decarbonylated derivatives in deuterochloroform solution exist in the double chair conformation. The predominantly formed secondary alcohols isomers have preferred double chair conformation with the hydroxyl group equatorial relative to the plane of the piperidine ring. On the other hand, the epimeric alcohols have predominant boat-chair conformation; the piperidine ring takes the boat form due to intramolecular hydrogen bonding between the unshared electron pair of the nitrogen atom and hydroxyl group proton. Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 11, pp. 1716–1725, November, 2008.