Conformational isomerism Essays

TFCH2002 Organic Chemistry II Lab Report Experiment title: A Floral Fragrance, Methyl Benzoate Name: Conor Fitzpatrick Student number: C14740151 Course code: DT422/2 Report submission date: 02/03/16 Aims • To convert benzoic acid and produce methyl benzoate by Fischer esterification. • Learn reaction mechanism involved in esterification. Benzoic acid + methanol  Methyl benzoate + water Introduction The ester functional group can be synthesized a number of different

Introduction: Benzopinacol can be prepared from benzophenone in presence of sun light (photochemically) using isopropanol as the reducing agent in presence of acetic acid. Acetic acid is added to prevent the cleavage of benzopinacol to benzophenone and benzhydrol by the alkali derived from the glass container used for the reaction. Benzopinacol obtained in the first experiment is converted to benzopinacolone by heating under reflux (5 minutes) with glacial acetic acid containing trace amount of iodine

Cyclohexanes give off an extremely high, unfavorable energy due to the spatial orientation of the atoms. Since these atoms are proximally close steric hindrance is observed. When comparing planar cyclohexanes with a chair conformation of a cyclohexane it is important to note how severe the angle strain, torsional strain, and steric strain could be. In planar cyclohexanes the torsional strain and angle strain is quite severe; this is because all C-C bonds are eclipsed (torsional) and all of the internal

of stereoisomerism in chemistry studies are defined as conformational isomers. This phenomenon in chemistry is called as conformational isomerism. Conformational isomers are stereoisomers which arise from the rotation about sigma (σ) bond (single bond). It is usually fast interconverting in room temperature, causing in different arrangements of atoms in three-dimension space. The isomers which created in the specific conformational isomerism can be referred as conformers, or pointedly as rotamers

Conformational isomerism is actually an isomerism that rotates free around single bond. Stereoisomers which can be converted into one another by the twisting of a central carbon-carbon σ bond are called as conformational isomers and sometimes they frequently interconverting rapidly at room temperature. Hydrocarbon alkanes usually present conformation isomerism due to the presence of C-C bonds. C-C σ bonds rotate to give different shapes to a molecule like eclipsed form, staggered and anti form, and