Steric effects

About: Steric effects is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 16112 publications have been published within this topic receiving 319615 citations. The topic is also known as: steric hindrance.

Neutral carbene analogues of the heaviest Group 13 elements: Consideration of electronic and steric effects on structure and stability

Abstract: The neutral monovalent Group 13 β-diketiminato complexes [CH{(CF3)2CN-2,6-iPr2C6H3}2In] and [CH{(Me)2CN-2,6-iPr2C6H3}2Tl] have been synthesised by analogous ‘one-pot’ procedures involving reaction of [KN(SiMe3)2] with the appropriate β-imino-enamine and Group 13 iodide. The structure of the indium complex reveals that replacement of the ligand backbone methyl groups of the previously reported complex [CH{(Me)2CN-2,6-iPr2C6H3}2In] with trifluoromethyl substituents results in only minor modifications to the dimensions of the NCCCNIn metallacycle. The electronic structures of both indium species were interrogated by DFT calculations to reveal similar frontier molecular orbital schemes. In agreement with calculations performed previously on the aluminium and gallium complexes, [CH{(Me)2CN-2,6-iPr2C6H3}2Al] and [CH{(Me)2CN-2,6-iPr2C6H3}2Ga], the HOMO in both indium species comprises a metal-based sp-hybrid while the LUMO is a ligand-based orbital of π symmetry. The vacant indium p-orbital is represented by the LUMO + 1. Although incorporation of the fluorinated substituents results in a stabilisation of the system overall, the stabilities and observed structural features of the complexes are reasoned to be primarily a result of the steric profile of the very bulky ligands and not through any redistribution of the electron density within the cyclic species. The thallium complex is isostructural to the analogous and previously reported aluminium, gallium and indium species. The greater stability of the monovalent state however is reflected in a reordering of the orbital energies and a stabilisation of the metal-based orbitals in the frontier region of the MO scheme.

Additions to bicyclic olefins. III. Stereochemistry of the epoxidation of norbornene, 7,7-dimethylnorbornene, and related bicyclic olefins. Steric effects in the 7,7-dimethylnorbornyl system

Abstract: A systematic study of addition reactions of norbornene, 7,7-dimethylnorbornene, and related bicyclic olefins has been undertaken in order to define more precisely the role of steric effects in controlling the stereo- chemistry of the additions and the nature of the intermediates in such addition reactions. The addition of borane to norbornene proceeds almost exclusively exo (99.573, whereas the corresponding addition to 7,7-dimethylnor- bornene proceeds preferentially endu (78%). Similarly, hydroboration of 2methylenenorbornane gives pref- erentially exo (85%), whereas 2-methylene-7,7-dimethylnorbornane gives preferentially (85%) endo product. Similar results were realized with 1-methylnorbornene, 2-methylnorbornene, bornene, and 2,7,7-trimethylnorbor- nene. Consequently, hydroboration of norbornene, 1- and 2-methylnorbornene, and 2-methylenenorbornane goes predominantly exo, evidently reflecting the greater steric availability of the exu position in this bicyclic system. However, the presence of 7,7-dimethyl substituents causes the addition to proceed preferentially from the endu direction. Consequently, in hydroboration the 7,7-dimethyl substituents alter the normal direction of addition to olefins of the norbornane structure, irrespective of whether the double bond is endocyclic, directly under the 7,7- substituents, or exocyclic, located to the side of the substituents. major argument for the u-bridged norbornyl cation A is the almost exclusive exo substitution realized in the solvolysis of 7,7-dimethylnorbornyl derivatives. 334

Selection Rules for Helicate Ligand Component Self-Assembly: Steric, pH, Charge, and Solvent Effects

Abstract: The reaction between 1,10-phenanthroline-2,9-dicarboxaldehyde, copper(I), and certain primary amines was found to give quantitatively a dicopper double-helicate product (two of which were crystallographically characterized) by imine self-assembly around CuI templates. The parameters of this reaction were investigated, and important roles were found to be played by (i) the steric bulk of the amine, (ii) the charge of the amine, (iii) the solvent used, and (iv) the pH of the solution. Water was found to allow the broadest range of structures to form, and ligand-component exchange reactions (involving the substitution of an aromatic for an aliphatic amine) were demonstrated to proceed readily in this solvent.