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Ab initio studies of structural features not easily amenable to experiment. 18. Conformational analysis and molecular structure of glycine methyl ester

✍ Scribed by Lother Schäfer; C. Van Alsenoy; J. N. Scarsdale; V. J. Klimkowski; J. D. Ewbank

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1981
Tongue
English
Weight
322 KB
Volume
2
Category
Article
ISSN
0192-8651

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Abstract

The structures of four conformations of the methyl ester of glycine were determined by standard single‐determinant molecular orbital (MO) calculations using Pulay's force method and the 4‐21G basis set. The most stable conformation of this compound has a symmetry plane which contains all the heavy atoms; it is stabilized by hydrogen bonds between the NH~2~ group and the carbonyl oxygen; it corresponds to the most stable, stretched form of free glycine. The structural parameters in the different conformations can vary significantly (bond distance by more than 0.02 Å and bond angles by up to 15°). The structural changes which are caused in glycine by esterification are discussed and some of them are interpreted in terms of hyperconjugative π‐electron delocalization.

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