Abstract
DNMR study of a series of singly peri-substituted 9-(2-methylbenzyl)triptycene derivatives showed that the interconversion among the ap and ±sc rotamers with the o-methyl group pointing outside the triptycyl skeleton occurs by two consecutive gear motion steps by way of the unstable rotamers with the o-methyl group pointing inside. The+sc\ightleftharpoons−sc interconversion barriers (13.2—14.1 kcal/mol) are lower than the ap\ightleftharpoons±sc ones (17.7–20.8 kcal/ mol). The aryl group passes over a peri-hydrogen at the transition state of the former process and over the peri-substituent in the latter.

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