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Published on: February 15, 2016
Conformational study of the structure of 18-thiacrown-6
1Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, King Saud University, P.O. Box 2455, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia.
Abstract:
Conformational analysis was performed for 18-thiacrown-6 (18t6) using the CONFLEX method and the MMFF94s force field. Computations were performed for some of the low energy conformations at the HF, B3LYP, CAM-B3LYP, M06, M06L, M062x, M06HF and MP2 levels. The computations were also performed using the DFT-D3 method along with the TPSS and PBE functionals. The study predicted a new C2 conformation as the ground state conformation of 18t6. This new C2 conformation is more stable than the experimentally known solid state conformation by 4.7 kcal/mol at the MP2/6-311G** level. This conformation has all of the SCCS dihedral angles adopt exodentate structure. However, the experimentally known conformation of the solid phase has two of the SCCS dihedral angles violating this exodentate rule. It was concluded that for 18t6 stability a linear dihedral SCCS angle requirement is more important than a gauche CSCC dihedral angle requirement.
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