organic compounds
4-Oxocyclohexaneacetic acid: catemeric hydrogen bonding and ∊-keto acid
of a single conformational enantiomer in an achiralaCarl A. Olson Memorial Laboratories, Department of Chemistry, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ 07102, USA
*Correspondence e-mail: rogerlal@andromeda.rutgers.edu
The 8H12O3, consists of a single conformational enantiomer, which aggregates in the catemeric acid-to-ketone hydrogen-bonding mode [O⋯O = 2.682 (4) Å and O—H⋯O = 172 (6)°]. Four hydrogen-bonding chains of translationally related molecules pass through the cell orthogonal to the 43 screw axis along c, alternating in the 110 and the 10 direction, with alignment with respect to this axis of + + − −. Successive chains are rotated by 90° around the c axis. One C—H⋯O=C close contact, involving the carboxyl group, exists.
of the title compound, CRelated literature
For a discussion of highly ordered carboxyl bond distances and angles, see: Borthwick (1980). For close contact information, see: Steiner (1997). For related structures, see: Abell et al. (1991); Chen et al. (2000); Desiraju (1989); Halfpenny (1990); Jacques et al. (1981); Kawai et al. (1985); McGuire et al. (1995). For background information regarding the crystallization of a single chiral conformer from a racemic solution, see: Kondepudi et al. (1990). For anti-isoketopinic acid, see: Lalancette et al. (1997). For a description of the Cambridge Structural Database, see: Allen (2002).
Experimental
Crystal data
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Data collection: APEX2 (Bruker, 2006); cell SAINT (Bruker, 2005); data reduction: SAINT; program(s) used to solve structure: SHELXTL (Sheldrick, 2008b); program(s) used to refine structure: SHELXTL; molecular graphics: SHELXTL; software used to prepare material for publication: SHELXTL.
Supporting information
10.1107/S1600536810036652/sj5037sup1.cif
contains datablocks I, global. DOI:Structure factors: contains datablock I. DOI: 10.1107/S1600536810036652/sj5037Isup2.hkl
The solid-state (KBr) infrared spectrum of (I) has C=O stretching absorptions at 1726 and 1685 cm-1, consistent with known shifts produced when H-bonding is removed from carboxyl C=O and added to a ketone, respectively. In CHCl3 solution, these bands coalesce to a single absorption at 1707 cm-1, with a typical carboxyl-dilution shoulder around 1755 cm-1.
The title compound was prepared by Jones oxidation of the product obtained by catalytic hydrogenation of p-hydroxyphenylacetic acid over a Rh/C catalyst. The crystal used was obtained from Et2O/cyclohexane (60:40 v/v) by evaporation, mp 345 K.
All H atoms for (I) were found in electron density difference maps. The hydroxyl H was fully refined. The methylene and methine Hs were placed in geometrically idealized positions and constrained to ride on their parent C atoms with C—H distances of 0.99 and 1.00 Å, respectively, and Uiso(H) = 1.2Ueq(C).
Data collection: APEX2 (Bruker, 2006); cell
SAINT (Bruker, 2005); data reduction: SAINT (Bruker, 2005); program(s) used to solve structure: SHELXTL (Sheldrick, 2008b); program(s) used to refine structure: SHELXTL (Sheldrick, 2008b); molecular graphics: SHELXTL (Sheldrick, 2008b); software used to prepare material for publication: SHELXTL (Sheldrick, 2008b).C8H12O3 | Dx = 1.271 Mg m−3 |
Mr = 156.18 | Melting point: 345 K |
Tetragonal, P43 | Cu Kα radiation, λ = 1.54178 Å |
Hall symbol: P 4cw | Cell parameters from 6759 reflections |
a = 6.8531 (12) Å | θ = 5.1–70.5° |
c = 17.372 (3) Å | µ = 0.80 mm−1 |
V = 815.9 (3) Å3 | T = 100 K |
Z = 4 | Block, colourless |
F(000) = 336 | 0.28 × 0.20 × 0.16 mm |
Bruker SMART APEXII CCD area-detector diffractometer | 1310 independent reflections |
Radiation source: fine-focus sealed tube | 1274 reflections with I > 2σ(I) |
Graphite monochromator | Rint = 0.029 |
ϕ and ω scans | θmax = 70.8°, θmin = 6.5° |
Absorption correction: multi-scan (SADABS; Sheldrick, 2008a) | h = −7→7 |
Tmin = 0.806, Tmax = 0.882 | k = −8→7 |
6963 measured reflections | l = −20→18 |
Refinement on F2 | Hydrogen site location: inferred from neighbouring sites |
Least-squares matrix: full | H atoms treated by a mixture of independent and constrained refinement |
R[F2 > 2σ(F2)] = 0.039 | w = 1/[σ2(Fo2) + (0.0369P)2 + 0.671P] where P = (Fo2 + 2Fc2)/3 |
wR(F2) = 0.113 | (Δ/σ)max < 0.001 |
S = 1.18 | Δρmax = 0.17 e Å−3 |
1310 reflections | Δρmin = −0.20 e Å−3 |
105 parameters | Extinction correction: SHELXTL (Sheldrick, 2008b), Fc*=kFc[1+0.001xFc2λ3/sin(2θ)]-1/4 |
1 restraint | Extinction coefficient: 0.0023 (5) |
Primary atom site location: structure-invariant direct methods | Absolute structure: Flack (1983), 559 Friedel pairs |
Secondary atom site location: difference Fourier map | Absolute structure parameter: 0.0 (4) |
C8H12O3 | Z = 4 |
Mr = 156.18 | Cu Kα radiation |
Tetragonal, P43 | µ = 0.80 mm−1 |
a = 6.8531 (12) Å | T = 100 K |
c = 17.372 (3) Å | 0.28 × 0.20 × 0.16 mm |
V = 815.9 (3) Å3 |
Bruker SMART APEXII CCD area-detector diffractometer | 1310 independent reflections |
Absorption correction: multi-scan (SADABS; Sheldrick, 2008a) | 1274 reflections with I > 2σ(I) |
Tmin = 0.806, Tmax = 0.882 | Rint = 0.029 |
6963 measured reflections |
R[F2 > 2σ(F2)] = 0.039 | H atoms treated by a mixture of independent and constrained refinement |
wR(F2) = 0.113 | Δρmax = 0.17 e Å−3 |
S = 1.18 | Δρmin = −0.20 e Å−3 |
1310 reflections | Absolute structure: Flack (1983), 559 Friedel pairs |
105 parameters | Absolute structure parameter: 0.0 (4) |
1 restraint |
Experimental. crystal mounted on a Cryoloop using Paratone-N |
Geometry. All e.s.d.'s (except the e.s.d. in the dihedral angle between two l.s. planes) are estimated using the full covariance matrix. The cell e.s.d.'s are taken into account individually in the estimation of e.s.d.'s in distances, angles and torsion angles; correlations between e.s.d.'s in cell parameters are only used when they are defined by crystal symmetry. An approximate (isotropic) treatment of cell e.s.d.'s is used for estimating e.s.d.'s involving l.s. planes. |
Refinement. Refinement of F2 against ALL reflections. The weighted R-factor wR and goodness of fit S are based on F2, conventional R-factors R are based on F, with F set to zero for negative F2. The threshold expression of F2 > σ(F2) is used only for calculating R-factors(gt) etc. and is not relevant to the choice of reflections for refinement. R-factors based on F2 are statistically about twice as large as those based on F, and R- factors based on ALL data will be even larger. |
x | y | z | Uiso*/Ueq | ||
O1 | 0.9958 (3) | 1.2372 (3) | 0.08526 (13) | 0.0341 (5) | |
O2 | 0.2472 (4) | 0.6544 (3) | 0.03744 (14) | 0.0460 (6) | |
O3 | 0.1245 (4) | 0.5683 (4) | 0.15016 (13) | 0.0421 (6) | |
H3 | 0.083 (6) | 0.482 (6) | 0.130 (2) | 0.036 (11)* | |
C1 | 0.4571 (4) | 0.9768 (4) | 0.10334 (18) | 0.0275 (6) | |
H1 | 0.3956 | 1.0155 | 0.0534 | 0.033* | |
C2 | 0.6441 (4) | 0.8617 (4) | 0.08592 (17) | 0.0289 (7) | |
H2A | 0.7056 | 0.8208 | 0.1349 | 0.035* | |
H2B | 0.6105 | 0.7426 | 0.0565 | 0.035* | |
C3 | 0.7890 (4) | 0.9841 (4) | 0.03955 (19) | 0.0299 (6) | |
H3A | 0.9128 | 0.9109 | 0.0342 | 0.036* | |
H3B | 0.7358 | 1.0064 | −0.0127 | 0.036* | |
C4 | 0.8297 (4) | 1.1764 (4) | 0.07670 (18) | 0.0294 (7) | |
C5 | 0.6532 (5) | 1.2912 (4) | 0.10375 (19) | 0.0340 (7) | |
H5A | 0.5867 | 1.3494 | 0.0587 | 0.041* | |
H5B | 0.6967 | 1.3990 | 0.1376 | 0.041* | |
C6 | 0.5086 (4) | 1.1616 (4) | 0.14778 (18) | 0.0309 (7) | |
H6A | 0.5662 | 1.1249 | 0.1980 | 0.037* | |
H6B | 0.3879 | 1.2365 | 0.1580 | 0.037* | |
C7 | 0.3105 (4) | 0.8534 (4) | 0.14873 (17) | 0.0284 (6) | |
H7A | 0.3757 | 0.8031 | 0.1956 | 0.034* | |
H7B | 0.2019 | 0.9386 | 0.1656 | 0.034* | |
C8 | 0.2272 (4) | 0.6841 (4) | 0.10499 (17) | 0.0285 (7) |
U11 | U22 | U33 | U12 | U13 | U23 | |
O1 | 0.0344 (12) | 0.0356 (12) | 0.0322 (12) | −0.0107 (9) | −0.0004 (9) | 0.0009 (9) |
O2 | 0.0644 (16) | 0.0488 (14) | 0.0248 (12) | −0.0289 (12) | 0.0023 (12) | −0.0052 (10) |
O3 | 0.0544 (15) | 0.0413 (14) | 0.0305 (12) | −0.0195 (12) | 0.0077 (11) | −0.0039 (11) |
C1 | 0.0327 (15) | 0.0281 (15) | 0.0217 (14) | −0.0034 (12) | −0.0037 (12) | 0.0028 (12) |
C2 | 0.0366 (16) | 0.0244 (15) | 0.0258 (16) | −0.0003 (12) | −0.0009 (13) | −0.0002 (12) |
C3 | 0.0321 (16) | 0.0318 (15) | 0.0257 (15) | 0.0002 (12) | −0.0033 (13) | 0.0002 (13) |
C4 | 0.0353 (16) | 0.0308 (15) | 0.0222 (14) | −0.0054 (13) | −0.0014 (13) | 0.0070 (12) |
C5 | 0.0407 (18) | 0.0254 (16) | 0.0358 (18) | −0.0041 (13) | −0.0004 (14) | −0.0018 (13) |
C6 | 0.0282 (15) | 0.0294 (16) | 0.0352 (17) | 0.0007 (11) | −0.0004 (13) | −0.0025 (14) |
C7 | 0.0311 (15) | 0.0299 (15) | 0.0244 (15) | −0.0004 (11) | −0.0004 (12) | 0.0015 (12) |
C8 | 0.0270 (15) | 0.0351 (16) | 0.0234 (16) | 0.0001 (12) | −0.0016 (12) | 0.0002 (12) |
O1—C4 | 1.222 (4) | C3—H3A | 0.9900 |
O2—C8 | 1.199 (4) | C3—H3B | 0.9900 |
O3—C8 | 1.319 (4) | C4—C5 | 1.518 (4) |
O3—H3 | 0.74 (4) | C5—C6 | 1.535 (4) |
C1—C6 | 1.524 (4) | C5—H5A | 0.9900 |
C1—C7 | 1.532 (4) | C5—H5B | 0.9900 |
C1—C2 | 1.535 (4) | C6—H6A | 0.9900 |
C1—H1 | 1.0000 | C6—H6B | 0.9900 |
C2—C3 | 1.529 (4) | C7—C8 | 1.500 (4) |
C2—H2A | 0.9900 | C7—H7A | 0.9900 |
C2—H2B | 0.9900 | C7—H7B | 0.9900 |
C3—C4 | 1.494 (4) | ||
C8—O3—H3 | 114 (3) | C4—C5—C6 | 111.6 (2) |
C6—C1—C7 | 110.5 (2) | C4—C5—H5A | 109.3 |
C6—C1—C2 | 109.5 (2) | C6—C5—H5A | 109.3 |
C7—C1—C2 | 111.4 (2) | C4—C5—H5B | 109.3 |
C6—C1—H1 | 108.5 | C6—C5—H5B | 109.3 |
C7—C1—H1 | 108.5 | H5A—C5—H5B | 108.0 |
C2—C1—H1 | 108.5 | C1—C6—C5 | 112.2 (2) |
C3—C2—C1 | 111.4 (2) | C1—C6—H6A | 109.2 |
C3—C2—H2A | 109.4 | C5—C6—H6A | 109.2 |
C1—C2—H2A | 109.4 | C1—C6—H6B | 109.2 |
C3—C2—H2B | 109.4 | C5—C6—H6B | 109.2 |
C1—C2—H2B | 109.4 | H6A—C6—H6B | 107.9 |
H2A—C2—H2B | 108.0 | C8—C7—C1 | 114.6 (2) |
C4—C3—C2 | 112.2 (3) | C8—C7—H7A | 108.6 |
C4—C3—H3A | 109.2 | C1—C7—H7A | 108.6 |
C2—C3—H3A | 109.2 | C8—C7—H7B | 108.6 |
C4—C3—H3B | 109.2 | C1—C7—H7B | 108.6 |
C2—C3—H3B | 109.2 | H7A—C7—H7B | 107.6 |
H3A—C3—H3B | 107.9 | O2—C8—O3 | 122.8 (3) |
O1—C4—C3 | 121.8 (3) | O2—C8—C7 | 125.7 (3) |
O1—C4—C5 | 121.9 (3) | O3—C8—C7 | 111.5 (3) |
C3—C4—C5 | 116.3 (3) | ||
C6—C1—C2—C3 | −58.4 (3) | C7—C1—C6—C5 | −179.2 (2) |
C7—C1—C2—C3 | 179.1 (2) | C2—C1—C6—C5 | 57.8 (3) |
C1—C2—C3—C4 | 52.9 (3) | C4—C5—C6—C1 | −51.0 (3) |
C2—C3—C4—O1 | 132.3 (3) | C6—C1—C7—C8 | 171.1 (2) |
C2—C3—C4—C5 | −47.3 (4) | C2—C1—C7—C8 | −67.0 (3) |
O1—C4—C5—C6 | −133.5 (3) | C1—C7—C8—O2 | −9.6 (4) |
C3—C4—C5—C6 | 46.0 (4) | C1—C7—C8—O3 | 171.0 (3) |
D—H···A | D—H | H···A | D···A | D—H···A |
O3—H3···O1i | 0.75 (6) | 1.94 (6) | 2.682 (4) | 172 (6) |
C7—H7A···O2ii | 0.99 | 2.51 | 3.439 (5) | 156 |
Symmetry codes: (i) x−1, y−1, z; (ii) y, −x+1, z+1/4. |
Experimental details
Crystal data | |
Chemical formula | C8H12O3 |
Mr | 156.18 |
Crystal system, space group | Tetragonal, P43 |
Temperature (K) | 100 |
a, c (Å) | 6.8531 (12), 17.372 (3) |
V (Å3) | 815.9 (3) |
Z | 4 |
Radiation type | Cu Kα |
µ (mm−1) | 0.80 |
Crystal size (mm) | 0.28 × 0.20 × 0.16 |
Data collection | |
Diffractometer | Bruker SMART APEXII CCD area-detector diffractometer |
Absorption correction | Multi-scan (SADABS; Sheldrick, 2008a) |
Tmin, Tmax | 0.806, 0.882 |
No. of measured, independent and observed [I > 2σ(I)] reflections | 6963, 1310, 1274 |
Rint | 0.029 |
(sin θ/λ)max (Å−1) | 0.613 |
Refinement | |
R[F2 > 2σ(F2)], wR(F2), S | 0.039, 0.113, 1.18 |
No. of reflections | 1310 |
No. of parameters | 105 |
No. of restraints | 1 |
H-atom treatment | H atoms treated by a mixture of independent and constrained refinement |
Δρmax, Δρmin (e Å−3) | 0.17, −0.20 |
Absolute structure | Flack (1983), 559 Friedel pairs |
Absolute structure parameter | 0.0 (4) |
Computer programs: APEX2 (Bruker, 2006), SAINT (Bruker, 2005), SHELXTL (Sheldrick, 2008b).
D—H···A | D—H | H···A | D···A | D—H···A |
O3—H3···O1i | 0.75 (6) | 1.94 (6) | 2.682 (4) | 172 (6) |
C7—H7A···O2ii | 0.99 | 2.51 | 3.439 (5) | 156 |
Symmetry codes: (i) x−1, y−1, z; (ii) y, −x+1, z+1/4. |
Acknowledgements
The authors acknowledge support by NSF-CRIF grant No. 0443538. This paper is dedicated to the memory of HWT: he was a wonderful mentor, teacher and friend at Rutgers University-Newark for 44 years; he will surely be missed.
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The similar carbonyl basicities of carboxylic acids and ketones allow the two to compete as hydrogen-bond acceptors. Hence, simple keto acids display three known solid-state H-bonding modes beyond those seen in functionally unelaborated acids. The commonest, acid-to-ketone catemerization, constitutes a sizable minority of cases. The title compound aggregates as a catemer and crystallizes with only a single chiral conformer present.
Fig. 1 offers a view of the asymmetric unit. The expected staggering of substituents at C1 and C7 minimizes interactions with the axial H atoms at C2 and C6 by rotating the carboxyl away from the central O1—C4—C1—C7 plane, thus producing a chiral conformation. The C2—C1—C7—C8 torsion angle is -66.9 (4)° and the C1—C7—C8—O2 torsion angle is -9.9 (6)°.
The averaging of C—O bond lengths and C—C—O angles by disorder, common in carboxyl dimers, is not observed in catemers whose geometry cannot support the underlying averaging mechanisms involved. Here, these lengths and angles are typical of those for highly ordered dimeric carboxyls and catemers (Borthwick, 1980).
Fig. 2 shows the packing of the cell, with extracellular molecules to illustrate the H-bonding aggregation as translational carboxyl-to-ketone catemers around the 43 screw axis coinciding with the c cell edge [O···O = 2.682 (4) Å, O—H···O = 172 (6)°]. Successive molecules in a given H-bonding chain advance alternately along the 110 and the -110 directions, with alignment with respect to the c axis of + + - -. Successive chains around the c axis are rotated by 90°. The structure therefore is comprised of stacked sheets in four orientations, each layer consisting of parallel H-bonding chains laid side-by-side. The arrangement is nearly identical with that we have previously reported for anti-isoketopinic acid (Lalancette et al., 1997).
We characterize the geometry of H bonding to carbonyls using a combination of H···O=C angle and H···O=C—C torsion angle. These describe the approach of the acid H atom to the receptor O in terms of its deviation from, respectively, C=O axiality (ideal = 120°) and coplanarity with the carbonyl (ideal = 0°). Here, these two angles are 128.6 (16) and -1.2 (19)°.
Within the 2.6 Å range we survey for non-bonded C—H···O packing interactions (Steiner, 1997), only one close contact was found (see Table 2).
Although crystallization in space group P43 is itself quite unusual (ca 0.12% of compounds in the Cambridge database), an equally unusual aspect of the packing is the presence of only a single chiral conformer. Preferential crystallization of one chiral conformer from solutions of an inherently achiral molecule is very rare but far from unknown (Jacques et al., 1981; Desiraju, 1989). Among keto acids, five cases are known of this phenomenon: [Cambridge Structural Database (CSD, Version 5.28, update of Nov., 2006; Allen, 2002) refcodes CUHCUD (Kawai et al., 1985), JISVAI (Abell et al., 1991), KICRIX (Halfpenny, 1990) & ZEMJIK (McGuire et al., 1995)], plus the case of mesitylglyoxylic acid (Chen et al., 2000). The particular antipode crystallizing from such a solution may depend merely on which one chances to crystallize first, and it has been shown in a similar case that stirring seeds the solution and may largely or entirely prevent the enantiomeric species from crystallizing (Kondepudi et al., 1990). In the present instance, the Flack parameter allows us to assign a specific hand to (I), so the antipode actually illustrated is the correct one. Also, the octant rule predicts that the conformer should have (-) rotation.