The structure of acrolein in a liquid crystal phase |
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Authors: | Celebre Giorgio Concistrè Maria De Luca Giuseppina Longeri Marcello Pileio Giuseppe Emsley James William |
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Institution: | Università della Calabria, Dipartimento di Chimica, Arcavacata di Rende (Cs), Italy. |
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Abstract: | The (1)H NMR spectrum of a sample of acrolein dissolved in the nematic liquid crystal phase I52 has been analysed to yield 18 dipolar couplings between all the magnetic nuclei in the molecule; moreover, the (13)C and (13)C{(1)H} NMR spectra of a sample of acrolein in CDCl(3) were recorded and analysed to determine the indirect J(ij) couplings. The data were used to obtain the relative positions of the carbon and hydrogen atoms, assuming that these are independent of the conformations generated by rotation around the C--C bond through an angle phi, and to obtain a probability distribution P(phi). It has been found that in the liquid phase, the distribution is a maximum at the trans form whereas the abundance of the cis form is significantly smaller compared with that found by microwave spectroscopy or high level quantum mechanical calculations. Such calculations produced also a suitable force field needed to develop suitable strategies for vibrational correction procedure in the case of flexible molecules. |
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Keywords: | conformation analysis liquid crystals NMR spectroscopy |
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