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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A
Volume 115, Issue 35, Pages 9828-9836Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp201073j
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Bonn, Germany
- Fonds der Chemischen Industrie, Frankfurt, Germany
- Russian Foundation of Basic Research
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We present a H-1, H-2, and C-13 NMR study of the monoanions of succinic (1), mesa- and rac-dimethylsuccinic (2, 3), and methylsuccinic (4) acids (with tetraallcylammonium as the counterion) dissolved in CDF3/CDF2Cl at 300-120 K. In all four monoanions, the carboxylic groups are linked by a short intramolecular OHO hydrogen bond revealed by the bridging-proton chemical shift of about 20 ppm. We show that the flexibility of the carbon skeleton allows for two gauche isomers in monoanions 1, 2, and 4, interconverting through experimental energy barriers of 10-15 kcal/mol (the process itself and the energy barrier are also reproduced in MP2/6-311++G** calculations). In 3, one of the gauche forms is absent because of the steric repulsion of the methyl groups. In all four monoanions, the bridging proton is located in a double-well potential and subject, at least to some extent, to proton tautomerism, for which we estimate the two proton positions to be separated by ca. 0.2 angstrom. In 1 and 3, the proton potential is symmetric. In 2, slowing the conformational interconversion introduces an asymmetry to the proton potential, an effect that might be strong enough even to synchronize the proton tautomerism with the interconversion of the two gauche forms. In 4, the asymmetry of the proton potential is due to the asymmetric substitution. The intramolecular H-bond is likely to remain intact during the interconversion of the gauche forms in 1, 3, and 4, whereas the situation in 2 is less clear.
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