STRUCTURE OF CRYSTALLINE TETRAPHENYLPORPHINE . STEREOCHEMICAL NATURE OF PORPHINE SKELETON
STRUCTURE OF CRYSTALLINE TETRAPHENYLPORPHINE . STEREOCHEMICAL NATURE OF PORPHINE SKELETON
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DOI:
10.1021/ja01064a008
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发表时间:
1964-01-01
影响因子:
15
通讯作者:
HAMOR, TA
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作者:
HAMOR, MJ;HOARD, JL;HAMOR, TA
Analysis of all three-dimensional X-ray diffractiondata photographically recordable with Cu Ka radiation from tetragonal single crystals of tetraphenylporphine provides a definitive description of the atomic arrange-ment. The space group is I42d, the required molecular symmetry is Si-4, and “half-atom” peaks for hydrogen attached to nitrogen are clearly resolved by Fourier difference synthesis; the implication that stacking disorder does not seriously affect accuracy is supported also by other evidence, eg, the high yield of observable re-flections, ca. 91% of theoretical. Bond lengths obtained for the porphine skeleton are thought to be the most accurate values thus far reported. Simple theory suggests that at sufficiently low temperature the equilibrium configuration of the unconstrained porphine skeleton is somewhat ruffled, but theenergy barrier to reflection of configuration through the mean plane is so low that at ordinary temperatures the skeleton is quasi-planar and easily deformable. Thus a mutual accommodation of the observed ruffling of the porphine skeleton (Fig. 1) in crystalline tetraphenylporphine with the observed parallel stacking of quasi-planar molecules in the crystalline phthalocyanines is achieved.