Klyne W., Buckingham J. Atlas of Stereochemistry: Absolute Configurations of Organic Molecules

Springer-Science+Business Media, 1974. — 313 p. — ISBN: 978-0-412-10630-9
The 'Atlas' is intended to cover the most important simple chiral compounds and the main structural types of natural products. Cerrelations within a 'stereochemically homogeneous' series of compounds, such as monosaccharides and steroids, which are well documented elsewhere in the Iiterature are considered in outline only. Series of compounds which are essentially dimeric or polymerk types built up from chiral monomeric units are not covered in detail, since their configurations follow readily from those of the monomerk unit. Examples of such polymerie-type compounds are di-, oligo- and polysaccharides; bis (benzylisoquinoline) and other dimeric alkaloids; biflavonoids and polypeptides. Series of natural products having essentially the same carbon skeleton but known in a variety of stereochemical types due to epimerism at one or more chiral centres are frequently covered by general notes rather than by large numbers of examples. This treatment is given, for example, to the labdane-type diterpenes and the yohimbane-type alkaloids. lf a chiral compound, which does not fall into one of these categories cannot be found in the
'Atlas', the most likely explanations are (a) its absolute configuration has not been determined, or rests only on inconclusive data such as biogenetic analogy or specific rotation comparisons, or (b) it has been related by a fairly simple sequence to a compound which does appear. (We would, of course, be grateful to hear of any compounds of sufficient importance which we have not included.)Key
Fundamental Chiral Compounds
Carbohydrates
Terpenes (including Steroids)
Alkaloids
Miscellaneous Natural Products
Compounds with Chirality due to lsotopic Substitution
Compounds containing Chiral Axes, Planes, etc.
Compounds containing Chiral Atoms other than Carbon
Formulae Index
Author Index
Subject Index