Interactions in crystals .99. Akali-metal contact-ion multiples of acenaphthylene and fluoranthene dianions: Five-membered and six-membered ring coordination
Interactions in crystals .99. Akali-metal contact-ion multiples of acenaphthylene and fluoranthene dianions: Five-membered and six-membered ring coordination
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DOI:
10.1016/0022-328x(95)06063-3
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发表时间:
1996-08-09
影响因子:
2.3
通讯作者:
Nather, C
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作者:
Bock, H;Arad, C;Nather, C
Stimulated by qualitative MO considerations, the non-alternant pi-hydrocarbons acenaphthylene and fluoranthene have been reduced in their ether solutions under aprotic conditions by alkali metals to their dianions. These crystallize as contact ion multiples of different structures: the (15-crown-5)-solvated sodium salt of acenaphthylene is a monomeric contact ion triple [(H2CH2CO)(5)Na+C12H8++Na+(OCH2CH2)5](1) with the ten-fold coordinated Na+ counter cations above and below the cyclopentadienyl ring. In contrast, the DME- or diglyme-solvated Na+- and Li+-salts of fluoranthene dianion [(R(2)O)(2)Me(+)C(16)H(10)(++)Me(+)(OR(2))(2)]infinity crystallize in polymer strings containing eight-fold coordinated Li+ or ten-fold coordinated Na+ counter cations above and below different of the two naphthalene six-membered rings. For these rather unexpected coordination differences, MNDO calculations based on the structural data provide a plausible rationale: the negative charge in the acenaphthylene dianion is predominantly located within the five-membered ring and in the fluoranthene dianion within the naphthalene six-membered rings.