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Identification of the furanose ring conformations and the factors driving their adoption
Dominik Walczak1, Artur Sikorski1, Daria Grzywacz1
1Faculty of Chemistry, University of Gdańsk, Wita Stwosza 63, 80-308, Gdańsk, Poland.
Abstract:
Three groups of furanoses with restricted freedom of rotation on the C3-C4, C2-C3, and C1-C2 bonds, respectively, are presented. Conformational analysis of these furanoses is conducted based on the proton nuclear magnetic resonance (1H NMR) spectroscopy, density functional theory (DFT) calculations, and X-ray analysis. It is shown that the particular group of the presented furanoses is locked in the specific conformation. These are the 1T2-like, the 0E-like, and the 3T4-like conformation, respectively. Characteristic 1H NMR spectra of these three conformations are presented and the factors influencing the conformational preferences of the analyzed furanoses are discussed.
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