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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Amino Acids. 2010 Mar 12;41(1):181–186. doi: 10.1007/s00726-010-0504-8

Fig 4.

Fig 4

Quantum mechanical origin of the stereoelectronic effects in the preferred conformation of compounds 2 and 6. (A) Overlap of σ (or n) and σ* orbitals that gives rise to the gauche effect. (B) Overlap of the lone pair and π* orbital that gives rise to the nπ* interaction; depictions were generated with NBOView 1.1 (Wendt and Weinhold 2001).