Experimental and theoretical conformation analysis of eight-membered silocines with planar fragments

Abstract

The dipole moments of 6-thia-4,5: 6,7-dibenzo-1,3,2-dioxasilocines were determined experimentally and calculated at the DFT B3LYP/6-31G*level of theory and by the additivity scheme. The experimental and theoretical (DFT B3LYP/6-31G*) conformation analysis of eight-membered 1,3,2-dioxasilocines having planar fragments showed that these compounds in solution exist as boat-chair, boat-boat, or twist-boat conformers, depending on the presence of unsaturated planar fragment, nature of the heteroatom in position 6 of the eight-membered ring, and substituents on the silicon atom. © 2010 Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.