Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectra, Conformational Preferences, and Approximate Molecular Orbital Calculations for the syn and anti 2-Furanaldoximes
Evidence is adduced, mainly from proton chemical shift and long-range coupling constant data, that the anti isomer of 2-furanaldoxime exists almost exclusively in the s-cis form in solution, independently of the type of intermolecular association that occurs. Intramolecular hydrogen bonding apparently is absent in this isomer. Similarly, the syn isomer exists in roughly equal mixtures of s-cis and s-trans forms in solvents of widely different polarities. A variety of nuclear spin–spin coupling constants are calculated via the INDO and CNDO molecular orbital approximations, as are the dipole moments and conformational energies, for 2-furanaldehyde and its oximes. On the whole the experimental trends are well reproduced by the computations.