organic compounds
Figure 3
Molecular diagrams for (III), showing (a) the atomic numbering scheme and (b) the nonbonding interactions. Narrow broken lines (partially eclipsed by
atom C5) denote Pꢀ ꢀ ꢀO contacts and double broken lines intermolecular C—Hꢀ ꢀ ꢀO contacts. Displacement ellipsoids are drawn at the 40% probability
3
1
level. [Symmetry code: (i) ꢂx + , y ꢂ , z.]
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2
Figs. 1(a), 2(a) and 3(a) show the corresponding molecular
views and atomic labelling schemes used for (I), (II) and (III),
respectively. These three ylides share common features, in
particular a slightly distorted tetrahedral arragement around
the P atom, with the phenyl groups in a propeller-like dispo-
sition, as observed for stabilized keto ester ylides (Castan˜eda
et al., 2001). The sums of the angles about ylidic atom C1 are
very near the ideal value of 360ꢃ, consistent with sp2 hybri-
dization [358.0 (4)ꢃ in (I), 358.6 (5)ꢃ in (II) and 359.9 (5)ꢃ in
(III)] in a near trigonal-planar geometry.
the van der Waals radii (Bondi, 1964), and favourable inter-
actions should stabilize the conformer. The ester groups in (I)–
(III) have the typical Z conformation (Eliel & Wilen, 1994)
and are approximately in the ylidic plane.
The keto diester ylide solvate, (II), was prepared because
acetic acid can promote the formation of good single crystals
(Abel et al. 1989) and new intermolecular interactions could
modify the syn-keto anti-ester conformation of ylide (I).
However, (II) is a 1:1 ylide solvate with intermolecular
hydrogen-bond interactions and syn-keto anti-ester confor-
mations, as in (I).
The anti-ester conformations in crystalline ylides (I)–(III)
(Figs. 1–3) do not depend on the presence of a syn-keto group
and could be favoured by alkoxy Oꢀ ꢀ ꢀP interactions, an
attractive C—Hꢀ ꢀ ꢀꢀ effect (Nishio et al., 1995) or the absence
of nonbonded steric repulsion between alkoxy ylidic and
nonylidic ester groups. In the crystal structure and in solution,
the structures present one alkoxy group syn to P directed
towards the face of a phenyl group which is approximately
orthogonal to the ylidic C—P bond with a modestly stabilizing
C—Hꢀ ꢀ ꢀꢀ interaction (Nishio et al., 1995; Nishio & Hirota,
1989). The crystal structure of mono-ylidic diester (III) shows
an anti-ester conformation with a contact distance of
˚
The P1—C1 bond lengths [1.7196 (18)–1.758 (4) A] lie
between accepted values for single and double bonds (1.80–
˚
˚
1.83 A and 1.66 A, respectively; Howells et al., 1973) due to
electronic delocalization which shortens C1—C2 (in all three
structures) and C1—C3 [in (I) and (II)]. The ylidic keto
˚
carbonyl bonds are longer than the typical value of 1.21 A
˚
[C3—O4 = 1.239 (2)–1.254 (2) A] for keto-ester, diester and
diketo ylides (Castan˜eda et al., 2001, 2005).
In the crystalline stabilized ylides (I) and (II), the keto O
atom and the ylidic alkoxy groups are oriented towards P with
syn-keto and anti-ester conformations, respectively (Figs. 1
and 2). A syn-keto conformation is also established by
pyrolysis of diketo or keto ester-ylides, i.e. (I), where syn-keto
conformations are required to form keto or ester acetylenes,
respectively (Gough & Trippett, 1962; Chopard et al. 1965).
Coplanarity between the ylidic keto carbonyl and ester
carbonyl units in (I) and (II) is indicated by their torsion
angles. The P—C—C—O torsion angles are close to ꢂ2.5ꢃ for
the keto group and near to 167ꢃ for the ester carbonyl,
showing stronger delocalization of the keto group. The keto
and ester carbonyl groups in (I) and (II) have opposite
orientations, which reduces dipole–dipole repulsions, and the
˚
2.8177 (15) A between atoms P1 and O1.
The nonbonding interactions in (I), (II) and (III) are quite
different in all three structures. Compound (III) presents only
one close intramolecular Pꢀ ꢀ ꢀO contact [P1ꢀ ꢀ ꢀO1
=
˚
2.818 (2) A] and one moderate C—Hꢀ ꢀ ꢀO intermolecular
contact (Table 8), the remaining interactions being mostly van
der Waals. By contrast, (I) and (II) display a large number of
nonbonding contacts of diverse nature and strength. There are
two short intramolecular Pꢀ ꢀ ꢀO contacts in each [P1ꢀ ꢀ ꢀO1 =
˚
˚
˚
keto O atoms are within 2.88–2.91 A of P, i.e. within the sum of
2.877 (2) A and P1ꢀ ꢀ ꢀO4 = 2.879 (2) A in (I); P1ꢀ ꢀ ꢀO1 =
ꢁ
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