Abstract
The correlation of the rotation about the Cα-C' bond and the pyramidalization of the sp2-hybridized carbon atom C' and its three bonding partners to a flattened tetrahedron in the substructure Cβ-CαH-C'(═O)-OMe of substituted methyl acetates revealed that the two processes are not independent of each other but parts of a common molecular motion, as outlined in the preceding back-to-back paper. In the present study, we generalized the substructure to Xβ-CαH-C'(═Y)-Z with X, Y, and Z = O, N, C, and S, extending the analysis to several hundred thousand structures of the type carboxylates, carboxamides, ketones, imines, olefins, peptides, lactates, carbothioates, and phenyl derivatives, retrieved from the Cambridge Structural Database. ψ/θ Scatter plots of the individual structure points and their averaging in ψ/θav curves result in wavelike patterns with three maxima and minima and inversion symmetry at ψ = 0° and ±180 for a 360° rotation of Cβ about the Cα-C' bond. The pyramidalization of the sp2-hybridized group CαCiCoCo', which is part of the aromatic system, even disturbs the planarity of phenyl rings. Density functional theory calculations confirm the results of the CSD search.
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