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The Structure of Vicinal Pentaketones—X‐Ray Structure Investigations and Calculations
Author(s) -
Gleiter Rolf,
Litterst Edwin,
Oeser Thomas,
Irngartinger Hermann
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition in english
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 0570-0833
DOI - 10.1002/anie.199010481
Subject(s) - vicinal , dipole , moment (physics) , simple (philosophy) , steric effects , crystallography , computational chemistry , chemistry , physics , stereochemistry , classical mechanics , organic chemistry , philosophy , epistemology
A helical conformation and thus a sterically unfavored structure characterizes the pentaketones 1 and 2 . A simple model reveals that the decisive factor is the minimization of the total dipole moment.