| Literature DB >> 18062698 |
Edyta M Greer1, David Aebisher, Alexander Greer, Ronald Bentley.
Abstract
Computations provide insight to the stability and isomeric possibilities of thiotropocin, tropodithietic acid, and troposulfenin. Thiotropocin and tropodithietic acid contain a flat 7-membered ring and delocalized pi-bonds similar to those of tropylium ion (C(7)H(7)(+)). Troposulfenin is far less stable; it contains a puckered tropone ring and localized bonds similar to 1,3,5-cycloheptatriene. A facile 1,5-hydrogen shift suggests that thiotropocin and tropodithietic acid exist as a pair of interconverting tautomers. Loss of an acidic proton from these three tautomers produces the same conjugate base structure.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID: 18062698 DOI: 10.1021/jo7018416
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Org Chem ISSN: 0022-3263 Impact factor: 4.354