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Bárbara Gordillo-Román1, Jorge Camacho-Ruiz, María A Bucio
1Departamento de Química, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, México, D. F., México.
Abstract:
The reliability of vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) spectroscopy to discriminate four diastereomeric cedranol acetates 1-4 by means of their absolute configuration is examined. The usage of CompareVOA software to quantify comparisons of the measured infrared (IR) and VCD spectra with the corresponding simulated spectra at the B3LYP/DGDZVP and B3PW91/DGDZVP levels of theory for each diastereomer enabled the B3PW91 functional to be qualified as superior to the B3LYP functional for vibrational calculations of 1-4. Analogously, a set of quantitative VCD spectra cross-comparisons of 1-4 unambiguously distinguished the diastereomers using B3PW91 and failed using B3LYP. Remarkably, quantitative IR spectra cross-comparisons of 1-4 using B3PW91 or B3LYP functionals demonstrated that the achiral spectroscopic IR technique is not able to distinguish cedranol acetate diastereomers. VCD comparisons using anisotropy g-factor values of bands in the 1550-950 cm(-1) region of the spectra were of aid to facilitate visual spectra matching for each diastereomer.
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