G. Valle, G. Bonora, C. Toniolo
Dec 1, 1984
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Canadian Journal of Chemistry
Abstract
An analysis of the preferred conformations and modes of self-association of the N-fluoren-9-methoxycarbonyl derivatives of L-alanine and α-aminoisobutyric acid was performed in solution and in the solid state using infrared absorption, 1H nuclear magnetic resonance, and X-ray diffraction. In a solvent of low polarity (deuterochloroform) non-associated and self-associated species (involving predominantly the hydroxyl and carbonyl groups of the carboxylic acid moiety) simultaneously occur. At high dilution, where self-association is absent, the amount of intramolecularly H-bonded forms, if any, should be extremely small. Z(trans) E(cis) isomerism about the amide bond of the secondary urethane moiety was observed only for the less bulky L-alanine derivative. In the solid state all H-bonding donors and acceptors of the L-alanine and α-aminoisobutyric acid derivatives take part to complex schemes of intermolecular H-bonds. In the L-alanine derivative, crystallized as monohydrate, most of the intermolecular H-b...