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Introduction to Configurational Nomenclature

Even though enantiomers may be identified by their characteristic particular rotations, the assignment of a unique configuration to each has not yet been discussed. We have considered to the mirror-image configurations of enantiomers as "right-handed" and "left-handed", but deciding which is which is not a trivial task. An early technique assigned a D prefix to enantiomers are chemically related to a right-handed reference compound and an L prefix to a likewise related left-handed group of enantiomers. Even though this notation is still applied to amino acids and carbohydrates, to establish group relationships it required chemical transformations and in its general application proved to be ambiguous. A last solution to the vexing problem of configuration assignment was devised by three European chemists: R. S. Cahn, C. K. Ingold and V. Prelog. The resulting nomenclature system is sometimes called the R-Ssystem or the CIP system.
Each chiral center in a molecule is assigned a prefix (R or S), according to whether its configuration is right- or left-handed in the CIP system of nomenclature. No chemical interrelationship or reactions are essential for this assignment. The symbol R comes into existence from the Latin rectus for right, and S from the Latin sinister for left. On the application of two rules, the assignment of these prefixes depends and those two rules are:   The Sequence Rule and The Viewing Rule.
The sequence rule is the same as that used for assigning E-Z prefixes to double bond stereoisomers. Because most of the chiral stereogenic centers that we come across are asymmetric carbons, all four dissimilar substituents must be organized in this manner.

For Assignment of Configurations to Chiral Centers the Sequence Rule:

By looking at the atoms attached directly to the chiral center assign sequence priorities to the four substituents.

1.  The higher the atomic number of the immediate substituent atom, the higher the priority.

For an instance, H- < C- < N- < O- < Cl-. (Different isotopes of similar element are assigned a priority as per to their atomic mass.)

2.  If two substituents have similar immediate substituent atom,

Evaluate atoms progressively further away through the chiral center until a variation is found.

For an instance, CH3- < C2H5- < ClCH2- < BrCH2- < CH3O-.

3.  If double or triple bonded groups are comes into existence as a substituents, they are treated as an equivalent set of single-bonded atoms.

For an instance, C2H5-  <  CH2=CH-  <  HC≡C-

The Viewing Rule

Once the relative priorities of the four substituents have been determined, the chiral center must be viewed from the side opposite the lowest priority group. If we number the substituent groups from 1 to 4, with 1 being the highest and 4 the lowest in priority sequence, the two enantiomeric configurations are shown in the following diagram along with a viewers eye on the side opposite substituent #4.

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Remembering the geometric implication of wedge and hatched bonds, an observer (the eye) notes whether a curved arrow drawn from the # 1 position to the # 2 location and then to the # 3 position turns in a clockwise or counter-clockwise manner. If the turn is clockwise, as in the example on the right, the configuration is classified R. If it is counter-clockwise, as in the left illustration, the configuration is S. Another way of remembering the viewing rule, is to think of the asymmetric carbon as a steering wheel. The bond to the lowest priority group (# 4) is the steering column, and the other bonds are spokes on the wheel. If the wheel is turned from group # 1 toward group # 2, which in turn moves toward group # 3, this would either negotiate a right turn (R) or a left turn (S). This model is illustrated below for a right-handed turn, and the corresponding (R)-configurations of lactic acid and carvone are shown to its right. The stereogenic carbon atom is colored magenta in each case, and the sequence priorities are shown as light blue numbers. Note that if any two substituent groups on a stereogenic carbon are exchanged or switched, the configuration changes to its mirror image.

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The sequence order of the substituent groups in lactic acid should be obvious, but the carvone example requires careful analysis. The hydrogen is clearly the lowest priority substituent, but the other three groups are all attached to the stereogenic carbon by bonds to carbon atoms (colored blue here). Two of the immediate substituent species are methylene groups (CH2), and the third is a doubly-bonded carbon. Rule # 3 of the sequence rules allows us to order these substituents. The carbon-carbon double bond is broken so as to give imaginary single-bonded carbon atoms (the phantom atoms are colored red in the equivalent structure). In this form the double bond assumes the priority of a 3º-alkyl group, which is greater than that of a methylene group. To establish the sequence priority of the two methylene substituents (both are part of the ring), we must move away from the chiral center until a point of difference is located. This occurs at the next carbon, which on one side is part of a carbonyl double bond (C=O), and on the other, part of a carbon-carbon double bond. Rule # 3 is again used to evaluate the two cases. The carbonyl group places two oxygens (one phantom) on the adjacent carbon atom, so this methylene side is ranked ahead of the other.
An interesting feature of the two examples shown here is that the R-configuration in both cases is levorotatory (-) in its optical activity. The mirror-image S-configurations are, of course, dextrorotatory (+). It is important to remember that there is no simple or obvious relationship between the R or S designation of a molecular configuration and the experimentally measured specific rotation of the compound it represents. In order to determine the true or "absolute" configuration of an enantiomer, as in the cases of lactic acid and carvone reported here, it is necessary either to relate the compound to a known reference structure, or to conduct a rather complex X-ray analysis on a single crystal of the sample.

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