PHOTOELECTRON-SPECTRA OF ALKYL ARYL SELENIDES - ELECTRONIC AND STERIC FACTORS IN THE OBSERVATION OF ROTAMERS
PHOTOELECTRON-SPECTRA OF ALKYL ARYL SELENIDES - ELECTRONIC AND STERIC FACTORS IN THE OBSERVATION OF ROTAMERS
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DOI:
10.1021/jo00334a003
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发表时间:
1981-01-01
影响因子:
3.6
通讯作者:
GROSSMAN, J
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作者:
BAKER, AD;ARMEN, GH;GROSSMAN, J
The photoelectron spectra of several aryl alkyl selenides have been measured. Several of the spectra show evidence for theexistence of two predominant rotamers, one with maximum-overlap and one with minimal overlap. Using the interaction model developed here, we show how steric factorseffect rotamer populations and demonstrate that electronic effects determine whether or not different rotamers can bedetected by the photoelectron technique.The photoelectron spectra of benzene derivatives have provided copious information about electronic and steric effects in these species. For molecules such as phenols, phenyl ethers, and anilines, the low ionization potential (IP) region of the spectrum is readily assigned1 34by reference to a molecular orbital energy level diagram in which one has allowedthe p orbital on the substituent to interact with the benzene Bt orbital. The tacit assumption in such cases is that it is necessary only to consider a planar or nearly planar conformation in which the substituent p orbital is oriented for maximum overlap with the phenyl Bx orbital. Lack of complexity in the low-IP regions of the photo-electron spectra of such compoundsgenerally support this assumption, since the presence of rotameric forms far re-moved from the planar form would result in either the observation of additionalphotoelectron bands or in bands appreciably broader than those actually observed. Nevertheless, it is also to be expected that large substituent groups could alter this picture. Indeed, the photoelectron spectra of terf-butyl phenyl ether3, 4 and of other com-pounds with large ortho substituents5do reflect the steric constraints placed on these molecules. A particularly interesting situation arises with phenyl chalcogenides, since both theoretical6 7and experimental studies, including photoelectron studies, 8, 9 suggest that in some cases there may be a fairly close balance in energy between two extreme rotameric forms, designated as planar (I) and perpdicular (). Earlier calculations6 had suggested