Phenalene−phosphazene complexes: injection of electron spin density into the cyclotriphosphazene ring system
Phenalene−phosphazene complexes: injection of electron spin density into the cyclotriphosphazene ring system
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苯酚-磷腈配合物:将电子自旋密度注入环三磷腈环系
DOI:
10.1021/ja00311a061
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发表时间:
1985
影响因子:
15
通讯作者:
J. H. Marshall
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作者:
R. Haddon;S. L. Mayo;S. V. Chichester;J. H. Marshall
A theoretical model is advanced which provides a mechanism for the injectionof-electron spin density from a spirosubstituent into a phosphazene linkage via the phosphorus dT orbitals. Such pT-dT spirodelocalization is shown to be invariant to the dT basic set chosen for the phosphorusatom. The 1, 9-disubstituted-phenalenyl system is shown to possess a frontier molecular orbital which fulfills the requirements of the theoretical model. A series of monosubstituted-spiro [phenalene] derivatives of hexachlorocyclotriphosphazene havebeen prepared and characterized. Attempts to replace the remaining chlorine functionality with trifluoroethoxy groups gave rise to different modes of substitution, depending on the nature of the phenalene moiety. 4,, 4', 6,, 6,-tetrakis (trifluoroethoxy)-4,, 4', 6', 6,-tetrahydro-l-methylspiro [phenaleno [l, 9-i/e]-l, 3, 2-diazaphosphorine-2 (l//), 2'-[1, 3, 5, 2, 4, 6] triazatriphosphorine](8) retains its structural integrity in the presence of sodium trifluoroethoxide and may be isolated without complications. The compound undergoes both protonation and methylation (to produce 9+, BF4~) on the exocyclic imino-nitrogen atom. This latter result has been confirmed by an X-ray crystallographic study of 9+, BPh4". Electronic and P31 NMR spectra provide evidence which strongly suggests that the tetrakis (trifluoroethoxy) cyclotriphosphazene system is a strong electron acceptor even when bonded to a cationic substituent (as occurs in 9+). Both 8 and 9+, BF4" are electroactive, showing one and two reduction steps, respectively. The first reduction products havebeen examinedby electron spin resonance spectroscopy. Analysis of the ESR spectrum obtained from 9 providesthe first evidence for the injection of electron spin density into a segment of a phosphazene linkage. At least half of the cyclotriphosphazene ring nuclei are ESR-active.The phosphazenes havebeen of great interest in recent years, both in their cyclic and linear (polymeric) forms. 1-3 The chemistry of these compounds is becomingincreasingly well-developed and the phosphazenes probably constitute the premiere example of an inorganic homologous covalent class of compounds. The structures and bonding of the phosphazenes are of particular interest with respect to-bonding, delocalization, and aromatic character in the ring systems, and there are a number of important outstanding questions with regard to theelectronic structure of the cyclo-and polyphosphazenes. In many respects, the chemistry of the phosphazenes parallels that of conjugated organiccompounds. There is, however, an important difference: while the PN bonds in phosphazenes are usually equal in length and presumably intermediate in character between formal single and double bonds, they do not show many of the characteristicsnormally associated with conjugated organic