In the last few posts, I have explored the anomeric effect as it occurs at an atom centre X. Here I try to summarise the atoms for which the effect is manifest in crystal structures.
Posts Tagged ‘Alkane stereochemistry’
A periodic table for anomeric centres.
Saturday, August 6th, 2016Anomeric effects at boron, silicon and phosphorus.
Friday, July 1st, 2016The anomeric effect occurs at 4-coordinate (sp3) carbon centres carrying two oxygen substituents and involves an alignment of a lone electron pair on one oxygen with the adjacent C-O σ*-bond of the other oxygen. Here I explore whether other centres can exhibit the phenomenon. I start with 4-coordinate boron, using the crystal structure search definition below (along with R < 0.1, no disorder, no errors).[cite]10.14469/hpc/696[/cite]