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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 127, Issue 18, Pages 6700-6711Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja050483c
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The infrared (IR) and vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) spectra of S-2,2'-dimethyl-biphenyl-6,6'-dicarboxylic acid, S-1, in CDCl3 Solution are concentration-dependent, showing that oligornerization occurs with increasing concentration. DFT calculations support the conclusion that the oligomer formed is the cyclic tetramer (S-1)4, in which S-1 monomers are linked by hydrogen (H)-bonded (COOH)(2) moieties. Due to the existence of two inequivalent tautomeric conformations of each (COOH)(2) moiety, six inequivalent conformations of (S-1)(4) are possible. B3LYP/6-31G* DFT calculations predict that the conformation aaab, possessing three equivalent (COOH)(2) conformations, a, and one tautomeric conformation, b, has the lowest free energy. B3LYP/6-31G* IR and VCD spectra vary substantially with conformation. The B3LYP/6-31G* IR and VCD spectra of the C=O stretch modes of aaab are in excellent agreement with the experimental spectra, while those of all other conformations exhibit poor agreement, confirming the prediction that the aaab conformation is the predominant conformation. Comparison of the calculated IR and VCD spectra of the six conformations to the experimental spectra in the range 1100-1600 cm(-1) further supports this conclusion. The study is the first to use VCD spectroscopy to determine the structure of a supramolecular species.
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