Tetrahedron

Synthesis and conformations of a water-soluble cyclic tetramer obtained from reacting 5-sulfonatotropolone with formaldehyde

BL Poh, YY Ng

Index: Poh, Bo-Long; Ng, Yian Yian Tetrahedron, 1997 , vol. 53, # 25 p. 8635 - 8642

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Abstract

A water-soluble cyclic tetramer 3 has been synthesized from reacting 5-sulfonatotropolone with formaldehyde. In D2O at 25° C it existed in three major conformations (cone, 1, 2- alternate and 1, 3-alternate) with a trace amount of partial cone conformation. The latter