The conformation of cyclopentane

✍ Scribed by M. Lőw

• Book ID: 104235003
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1960
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 75 KB
• Volume: 1
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(01)82673-3

✦ Synopsis

FOR several years cyclopentane has been considered not entirely planar owing to torsional stresses between its methylene groups. Experimental investigations into the spatial structure of the molecule, although supporting the above assumption, did not lead to unequivocal conclusions. 1 Pitzer et al, offered arguments and calculations of thermodynamical nature that cyclopentane exists in a number of continuously interchanging molecular forms. Le Fevre and Le Fevre,* on the other hand, produced geometric data of a rigid axial-symmetric model based on the measured polarizabilities of the molecule.