A polypeptide chain can adopt many conformations. Yet, the sequence of its amino acid residues directs folding to a particular native state.1 The loss of conformational entropy associated with folding destabilizes the native state. This destabilization is overcome by the hydrophobic effect, hydrogen bonds, other noncovalent interactions, and disulfide bonds.2 We have identified another force th...

A stereoselective N-iminium ion cyclization with allylsilane to construct vicinal quaternary-tertiary carbon centers was developed for the concise synthesis of (±)-cephalotaxine. The current strategy features a TiCl4-promoted cyclization and ring-closure metathesis to furnish the spiro-ring system. The stereochemical outcome in the N-acyliminium ion cyclization was rationalized by the stereoele...

tant correlations between interproton coupling constants and structure available at the time. It cited 148 references, many of them multiple, and contained 109 structures with hundreds of numerical values for coupling constants as well as graphical and tabular results defining the variation of 1H~’Hcoupling constants with stereoelectronic factors. [The SCI® indicates that this paper has been ci...

tant correlations between interproton coupling constants and structure available at the time. It cited 148 references, many of them multiple, and contained 109 structures with hundreds of numerical values for coupling constants as well as graphical and tabular results defining the variation of 1H~’Hcoupling constants with stereoelectronic factors. [The SCI® indicates that this paper has been ci...

Rotational coordinates about the C(3)–O(4) bonds of 2,4-dioxaheptane (DOH) and 2,4,6-trioxaheptane (TOH) are compared at correlated levels of electronic structure theory for gauche and trans orientations of the O(2)–C(3) bonds. TOH has overlapping anomeric effects, while DOH does not. The overlapping stereoelectronic effect shows its largest impact on the length of the O(2)–C(3) bond, which is ...

Collagen is the most abundant protein in animals. Natural collagen consists of a triple helix of (Xaa-Yaa-Gly)n chains, in which the Xaa and Yaa residues are often l-proline. Here, a (2S,4S)-4-fluoroproline (flp) residue is shown to be greatly stabilizing in the Xaa position (but destabilizing in the Yaa position). In contrast, a (2S,4R)-4-fluoroproline (Flp) residue is shown to be greatly dest...

Preorganization is shown to endow a protein with extraordinary conformational stability. This preorganization is achieved by installing side-chain substituents that impose stereoelectronic and steric effects that restrict main-chain torsion angles. Replacing proline residues in (ProProGly)(7) collagen strands with 4-fluoroproline and 4-methylproline leads to the most stable known triple helices...

Hybrid-density functional theory (B3LYP/Def2-TZVPP) based method and NBOinterpretation were used to investigate the conformational behavior of 1,2-dihalodisilanes[halo=F (1), Cl (2), Br (3), I (4)]. The B3LYP/Def2-TZVPP results showed that the anticonformations of compounds 1-4 are more stable than their corresponding gaucheconformations. The stability of the anti conformation compared to the g...