Stereochemistry of crown ethers, X-ray crystallographic structures, solid phase 13C NMR, and solution conformational equilibria in cis-syn-cis dicyclohexano-15-crown-5 ether and its sodium thiocyanate complex
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The structures of the title materials have been determined via X-ray crystallography. In the free crown ether, there is effectively a plane of symmetry that bisects the molecule. In the NaNCS complex, ring inversion of one of the cyclo-hexane moieties has occurred, giving a distorted pentagonal pyramidal coordination geometry about the sodium ion. For the free crown, two conformers, whose free energies differ by ca. 0.5 kJ / mol in solution can be detected via 13C NMR at 168 K. Limiting low-temperature solution spectra are compared to those which have been obtained in the solid phase using the 13C CPMAS technique. Key words: crown ethers, stereochemistry, X-ray, NMR.