Conformations of conjugated hydrocarbons. Part 1. A spectroscopic and thermodynamic study of buta-1,3-diene and 2-methylbuta-1,3-diene (isoprene)

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Complete vibrational spectra of both buta-1,3-diene and 2-methylbuta-1,3-diene (isoprene) have been recorded over a range of temperatures. It is indicated by spectroscopic and thermodynamic methods that both compounds exhibit an equilibrium (s-trans s-cis) and the gauche-conformers are not present. Measurement of intensities of selected Raman bands of isoprene over a range of temperatures leads to a value of ΔH± standard deviation of 4.59 ± 0.16 kJ mol–1 and a value of ΔS of –0.8 J K–1 mol–1. The complex methyl torsions of both conformers of isoprene have been assigned and the heights of the three-fold barriers calculated. Complete vibrational assignments for both conformers of isoprene have been made except for the s-cis C–C torsional frequency. Comparison between thermally derived thermodynamic functions and those derived by statistical mechanics leads to a value of ΔH of 10.4 kJ mol–1 for butadiene, and a concentration of less than 3% s-cis-butadiene at normal temperatures. Using the experimental value of ΔH obtained for isoprene new values of thermodynamic functions have been calculated over a range of temperatures, indicating a concentration of 11% s-cis-isoprene at normal temperature.

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