The Role of Steric Factors in Conformational Preferences of Alkanes: IQA Analysis
摘要
Abstract
Electron energy partitioning into atomic contributions for butane and methylcyclohexane conformers shows that destabilization of the butane gauche conformer and the axial methylcyclohexane conformer is due to repulsion between hydrogen atoms, and the carbon skeleton contribution is negligibly small. The obtained results allow the discussion about the choice of parameters to be resolved based on the physically substantiated estimation of atomic contributions determined within IQA theory.