Table 3.

Calculated relative energies (kcal/mol) of the C1 and C2 conformations of 6-14 and 22 in the protonated states. The results for the deprotonated states are given in parenthesis.

	Ground State		Excited Singlet State
	C1	C2	C1	C2
6	0.0 (0.0)	5.3 (7.7)	0.0 (0.0)	6.6 (6.7)
7	0.0 (0.0)	4.2 (3.8)	0.0 (0.0)	4.0 (4.6)
8	0.0 (0.0)	3.3 (3.0)	0.0 (0.0)	5.6 (1.8)
9	0.0 (0.0)	6.0 (7.4)	0.0 (0.0)	7.8 (6.9)
10	0.0 (0.0)	4.7 (3.7)	0.0 (0.0)	4.8 (4.6)
11	0.0 (0.0)	3.7 (2.9)	0.0 (0.0)	5.7 (1.8)
12	0.0 (0.0)	6.1 (7.2)	0.0 (0.0)	8.0 (6.8)
13	0.0 (0.0)	4.8 (3.6)	0.0 (0.0)	5.2 (4.4)
14	0.0 (0.0)	3.9 (2.8)	0.0 (0.0)	5.8 (1.9)
22	0.0 (0.0)	0.0 (0.6)	0.0 (0.0)	0.9 (1.4)