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A strong cis-effect in an imidazole-imidazolium-substituted alkene

  • Dayne C. Georgiou
  • , Mohammad A. Haghighatbin
  • , Conor F. Hogan
  • , Michael S. Scholz
  • , James N. Bull
  • , Evan J. Bieske
  • , David J. D. Wilson
  • , Jason L. Dutton

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    Abstract

    We report the first example of an alkene with two carbon-bound substituents (imidazole and imidazolium rings) where the Z-isomer has a greater thermodynamic stability than the E-isomer which persists in both the gas phase and in solution. Theoretical calculations, solution fluorescence spectroscopy and gas-phase ion mobility mass spectrometry studies confirm the preference for the Z-isomer, the stability of which is traced to a non-covalent interaction between the imidazole lone pair and the imidazolium ring.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)8473-8480
    Number of pages8
    JournalAngewandte Chemie - International Edition
    Volume56
    Issue number29
    Early online date21 Apr 2017
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 5 Jul 2017

    Keywords

    • cis-effect
    • conformation analysis
    • E–Z isomerization
    • nitrogen heterocycles

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