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RESEARCH ARTICLE

Application of the Variable Oxygen Probe to Derivatives of 2,6-Dimethyltetrahydropyran-4-ol: Evidence for Through-Bond nO–σCC–σ*CO Interactions

Liam Oliver A , Somaiah Ragam B , Pierre Deslongchamps B , Jonathan M. White https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0707-6257 A C , Amber Hancock A and Samuel Brydon A
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A School of Chemistry and BIO-21 Institute, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic. 3010, Australia.

B Département de Chimie, Faculté des Sciences et de Génie, Université Laval, 1045 Avenue de la Médecine, Québec, Québec, G1V 0A6, Canada.

C Corresponding author. Email: whitejm@unimelb.edu.au

Australian Journal of Chemistry 74(3) 157-164 https://doi.org/10.1071/CH20149
Submitted: 7 May 2020  Accepted: 5 July 2020   Published: 3 August 2020

Abstract

The variable oxygen probe has been applied to axial and equatorial 4-pyranols 4 and 5 and their ester and ether derivatives. Plots of C–OR bond distance versus pKa (ROH) provided evidence for slightly stronger donation into the σ*C–OR antibonding orbital in the equatorial derivatives 5 than in the axial derivatives 4, which is consistent with the presence of a through-bond nO–σCC–σ*CO interaction in 5. Evidence in support of this interpretation was also provided by density functional theory (DFT) calculations and natural bond orbital (NBO) analyses of the various orbital interactions in the 4-pyranols 4 and 5, their protonated analogues 4·H2O+ and 5·H2O+, and the corresponding cyclohexane derivatives 6, 7, 6·H2O+, and 7·H2O+.


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