Fibrous red phosphorus.
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Yuekui Wang
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Theoretical analysis of the porphyrin-porphyrin exciton interaction in circular dichroism spectra of dimeric tetraarylporphyrins.
Chiral bis-porphyrins are currently the subject of intense interest as chiral receptors and as probes in the determination of structure and stereochemistry. To provide an improved framework for interpreting the circular dichroism (CD) spectra of bis-porphyrins, we have calculated the CD spectra of chiral bis-porphyrins from three classes: I, where porphyrins can adopt a relatively wide range of orientations relative to each other; II, porphyrins have a fixed relative orientation; III, porphyrins undergo pi-stacking. The calculations primarily utilized the classical polarizability theory of DeVoe, but were supplemented by the quantum mechanical matrix method. Class I was represented by three isomers of the diester of 5alpha-cholestane-3,17-diol with 5-(4'-carboxyphenyl)-10,15,20-triphenylporphin (2-alphabeta, 2-betaalpha, 2-betabeta). Careful analysis of the torsional degrees of freedom led to two to four minimum-energy conformers for each isomer, in each of which the phenyl-porphyrin bonds had torsional angles near 90 degrees. Libration about these bonds is relatively unrestricted over a range of +/-45 degrees. CD spectra in the Soret region were calculated as Boltzmann-weighted averages over the low-energy conformers for each isomer. Three models were used: the effective transition moment model, in which only one of the degenerate Soret components is considered, along the 5-15 direction; the circular oscillator model, in which both Soret components are given equal weight; and the hybrid model, in which the 10-20 oscillator is given half the weight of the 5-15 oscillator, to mimic the effect of extensive librational averaging about the 5-15 direction. All three models predict Soret exciton couplets with signs in agreement with experiment. Quantitatively, the best results are given by the hybrid and circular oscillator models. These results validate the widely used effective transition moment model for qualitative assignments of bis-porphyrin chirality and thus permit application of the exciton chirality model. However, for quantitative studies, the circular oscillator or hybrid models should be used. The simplified effective transition moment and hybrid models are justified by the librational averaging in the class I bis-porphyrins and should only be used with such systems. Two class II bis-porphyrins were also studied by DeVoe method calculations in the circular oscillator model, which yielded good agreement with experiment. Class III bis-porphyrins were represented by 2-alphaalpha, for which the calculations gave qualitative agreement. However, limitations in the conformational analysis with the close contacts and dynamic effects in these pi-stacked systems preclude quantitative results.
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Determination of the absolute configuration of rubroflavin by comparison of measured and calculated CD spectra of its thermolysis product 3-methanesulfinyl-5-methylmercaptophenol.
The absolute configuration of rubroflavin has been determined indirectly by comparison of the measured and the calculated CD spectrum of its thermal decomposition product 3-methanesulfinyl-5-methylmercaptophenol. Performing geometry optimizations at the HF/6-31+G* level we found fifteen local minima for the (R)-isomer of 3-methanesulfinyl-5-methylmercaptophenol. The CD spectrum of the compound was then obtained as a superposition of the Boltzmann-weighted spectra for each structure calculated with the non-empirical CIS method. The corresponding Boltzmann factors have been calculated employing the relative energies of these minima determined at the ZPE + MP2/6-31+G*//HF/6-31+G* level of ab initio theory. Comparing the signs of the observed and calculated longest wave length Cotton effect we assign an absolute configuration to the thermolysis product. Since additional calculations revealed that the tricoordinate sulfur atom in rubroflavin and in its decomposition product is configurationally stable under the conditions of thermolysis we conclude that the absolute configuation at the corresponding sulfur atom of rubroflavin is the same.
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Conformational analysis and TDDFT calculations of the chiroptical properties of tris [1,2-propanediolato(2-)-kappaO,kappaO'] selenium/tellurium and related compounds.
The tris(didentate) chelates [E(OCR1R2CR3R4O)3], with E = Se and Te, display both configurational (delta or lambda; R or S) and conformational (delta or lambda) chirality. In order to assess the contributions of these three chiral arrays to the Cotton effects of the chelates and to elucidate their stereochemistry in the gas phase and in solution, calculations of the UV and CD spectra (down to 180 nm), and also of the relative stability of the chelates, have been performed at the TDDFT/TZVP/B-P86 level. An extensive conformational analysis has supplied additional information on the relevant conformers in the conformational manifold. It was found that the dominant CD effect reflects mostly the delta/lambda twists of the three five-membered ligand rings, and less so the influence of the A/A core configuration, while the contributions of any R/S chiral carbon atoms of the ligand rings are negligible. The sign, the intensity, and the energy of this dominant CD band are found to depend on the stereochemistry of the chelates in a predictable way. Among the conformers, those with equatorially disposed methyl substituents are much preferred. These results make it possible to determine the absolute configuration (A/A) and conformation (delta/lambda) of the chelates from the CD data.
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