TY - JOUR
T1 - The solid-state and solution-state reassigned structures of tagitinin A, a 3,10-epoxy-germacrolide from Tithonia diversifolia, and the interconversion of 3,10-epoxy-germacrolide conformational families via a ring-atom flip mechanism
AU - Glaser, Robert
AU - García, Abraham
AU - Chávez, María Isabel
AU - Delgado, Guillermo
PY - 2005/1/1
Y1 - 2005/1/1
N2 - Tagitinin A (2), a known 3,10-epoxy-germacrolide-6,7-trans-lactone isolated from Tithonia diversifolia, was investigated by single crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. It was found to have a 1β,4α,6α,7β, 8β relative configuration which differed at C(1) from the 1α-orientation originally reported in the literature which was determined by Horeau's Rule. Analysis of the 1H NMR spectrum of 2 shows the molecule to maintain its crystallographically observed twist-chair-boat (TCB) nine-membered ring conformation in acetone-d6 solution. The twist-chair-boat/skew-chair-boat type 3 conformations of saturated/unsaturated nine-membered rings within 3,10-epoxy-germacrolides can be interconverted to the skew-chair-chair (SCC) conformation by means of a C(9) ring atom flip mechanism. As a result of this conformational change, the orientation of the C(1) atom and the C(8)-oxycarbonyl moiety are transformed from diequatorial to diaxial. The reported stereochemistry of 3,10-epoxy-germacrolide lactone structures, and the DFT B3LYP/6-31g(d) modeling findings in this work indicate that tetrahedral C(1) atoms stabilize the TCB/SCB type 3 conformations, while their trigonal counterparts stabilize the SCC conformation.
AB - Tagitinin A (2), a known 3,10-epoxy-germacrolide-6,7-trans-lactone isolated from Tithonia diversifolia, was investigated by single crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. It was found to have a 1β,4α,6α,7β, 8β relative configuration which differed at C(1) from the 1α-orientation originally reported in the literature which was determined by Horeau's Rule. Analysis of the 1H NMR spectrum of 2 shows the molecule to maintain its crystallographically observed twist-chair-boat (TCB) nine-membered ring conformation in acetone-d6 solution. The twist-chair-boat/skew-chair-boat type 3 conformations of saturated/unsaturated nine-membered rings within 3,10-epoxy-germacrolides can be interconverted to the skew-chair-chair (SCC) conformation by means of a C(9) ring atom flip mechanism. As a result of this conformational change, the orientation of the C(1) atom and the C(8)-oxycarbonyl moiety are transformed from diequatorial to diaxial. The reported stereochemistry of 3,10-epoxy-germacrolide lactone structures, and the DFT B3LYP/6-31g(d) modeling findings in this work indicate that tetrahedral C(1) atoms stabilize the TCB/SCB type 3 conformations, while their trigonal counterparts stabilize the SCC conformation.
KW - Conformational interconversion
KW - Horeau's rule
KW - Molecular modeling
KW - Tagitinin A
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U2 - 10.1590/S0103-50532005000300019
DO - 10.1590/S0103-50532005000300019
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:23744474331
SN - 0103-5053
VL - 16
SP - 440
EP - 448
JO - Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society
JF - Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society
IS - 3 A
ER -