Conformational analysis of a seven-membered ring azasugar, (3R,4R,6S)-trihydroxyazepane: Comparison of GIAO calculation and experimental NMR spectra on 13C chemical shifts

DFT/B3LYP/6-311++G(d,p) calculation of the relative stable conformations of (3R,4R,6S)-trihydroxyazepane are presented. The GIAO/DFT/OPBE, GIAO/DFT/B3LYP and GIAO/HF single point calculations with 6-311++G(d,p), 6-311+G(2d,p), cc-pVDZ and cc-pVTZ basis sets of (3R,4R,6S)-trihydroxyazepane were conducted to generate their 13C NMR chemical shifts. According to calculation results, 14 (3R,4R,6S)-trihydroxyazepane with optimized structure were generated. There were three conformers which contain the intramolecular hydrogen bonding exhibit a lowest electronic energies and TCN1(eq) was the most stable conformer than others. Boltzmann weighting factor analysis exhibits that TCN1(eq), TCN3(eq) and TCN5(eq) dominate a major contribution among the 14 conformers. The individual calculated NMR results of TCN1(eq), TCN3(eq) and TCN5(eq) represents a quite close correlation with experimental data. Moreover, the experimental 13C NMR chemical shifts gave only the average contribution of all conformers. In our investigation, the calculated 13C NMR chemical shifts of mixture (3R,4R,6S)-trihydroxyazepane exhibit a good agreement with the experimental NMR data. Calculated NMR results of mixture (3R,4R,6S)-trihydroxyazepane conformers display a remarkable MAE and RMS improvement over that of each individual conformer. A good calculation method and basis set choice to evaluate the theoretical chemical shifts for these conformers is HF/cc-pVTZ.

► Isomers of (3R,4R,6S)-trihydroxyazepane is distinguished by theoretical calculation.
► Theoretical calculation had been performed for discussing the energy stability.
► The relative stable conformers were TCN1(eq), TCN3(eq) and TCN5(eq).
► The distribution of relative stable conformers was determined.