Hydrogen bonding in β-aryl ethanols

✍ Scribed by P.von R. Schleyer; Claude Wintner; Daniel S. Trifan; Robert Bacskai

• Book ID: 104249935
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1959
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 331 KB
• Volume: 1
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(01)99445-6

✦ Synopsis

THE great potential of spectroscopic investigations of hydPogen bonding applied to the solution of configurational and conformational problems in organic ahemistry is becoming more widely recognized. As part of a program . of research in this field,' we have had occasion to examine a large number of nuclear and side-chain substituted &phenyl ethanols. 2 Very recently, Mateos and Cram3 have reported spectral observations of a number of diasteriomerit polysubstituted S-phenyl ethanols in the OH region of the infrared. Conelusions concerning the preferred conformations and the steric environments of the hyclroxyl group were advanced. It is noteworthy that our interpretations differ from those of the California workers in almost all significant respects,

We wish to record a portion of our results and to discuss th8 reasons differences in interpretation.