Effects of bridge redox state levels on the electron transfer and optical properties of intervalence compounds with hydrazine charge-bearing units
Effects of bridge redox state levels on the electron transfer and optical properties of intervalence compounds with hydrazine charge-bearing units
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DOI:
10.1021/ja972760o
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发表时间:
1998-07
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15
通讯作者:
S. Nelsen;R. Ismagilov;D. Powell
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作者:
S. Nelsen;R. Ismagilov;D. Powell
This work concerns zero driving force thermal electron transfer (ET) reactions within charge-localized symmetrical intervalence (SIV) compounds. SIV compounds have different charges on otherwise identical charge-bearing units that are connected by a bridge, and most examples studied have had transition-metal charge-bearing units. 1 SIV compounds show charge-transfer (CT) bands from which two fundamental parameters for ET, the vertical reorganization energy (λ) and the electronic coupling matrix element (V), may be obtained using Marcus-Hush theory. 2 We designate the CT band corresponding to ET between the chargelocalized minima, as well as the λ and V associated with this band, with subscript SE (for superexchange). 3 In the Marcus-Hush model (see Figure 1a), the diabatic SE energy surfaces are parabolas centered at 0 and 1, respectively, on an ET coordinate X. Electronic coupling through the bridge, measured by the offdiagonal matrix element (VSE) in a 2× 2 secular determinant produces a ground-state double-well adiabatic energy surface and a single minimum excited-state surface. Their energy separation at the ground-state minimum is λSE, which is the transition energy of the CT band at its maximum (hνmax). Hush derived a simple equation for evaluation of VSE from the CTSE band. 2e The most direct test of ET parameters obtained from a CTSE band is comparing the calculated rate constant for intramolecular ET with that measured experimentally (ket), but this test has not been applied to metal-centered examples because the ket values calculated are too large to measure. 4 Hydrazines have far larger internal vibrational reorganization energies (λv) than metal complexes, so their λSE values are much higher. This allows ket to be in the measurable range even when VSE is rather large, 5 making the CT band intense enough to observe easily. The durene-bridged compound 1+ has ket) 2.6× 108 s-1 at-8 C in CH3CN, determined by dynamic electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy. 6 It has a large enough VSE to make ket fall in the adiabatic regime, where it is very sensitive only to ΔG*. 2 A slight modification of the Marcus-Hush analysis of CTSE bands allows accurate calculation of ket from the λSE and VSE obtained for 1+, its analogue with two fewer methyl groups, 6b and three bis-(hydrazines) with saturated bridges; 5 therefore, the Hush VSE equation2e is a rather good approximation. 7 This paper principally concerns 2+, which we expected to have a ket value no larger than that of 1+ because the NAr lone pair, aryl π system twist angle φ, and, hence, λSE should be nearly the same. The φ values of crystalline 1+ average 50.5 at the neutral hydrazine unit and 66.2 at the cationic hydrazine unit. 6b X-ray data for neutral 3 (φ) 53.2) and 3+(φ) 66.7) provide models for the twist of the hydrazine units of 2+(their structures are reported in the Supporting Information). VSE depends on overlap at the bonds connecting the charge-bearing units to the bridge, so it depends on cos φ and the orbital coefficients at the atoms involved. The larger π system of the bridge for 2+ should lower its VSE relative to that for 1+, so smaller ket for 2+ than for 1+ might be expected. However, ket of 2+ is far larger than that of 1+. The ESR spectrum of 2+ is that of a rapidly exchanging hydrazine-centered species at all accessible temperatures in CH3CN and CH2Cl2, but a dynamic alternating line width effect was observed in acetone, allowing determination of ket at-105,-100, and-95 C as 1.6, 2.1, and 2.9× 108 s-1, respectively.ESR data for 1+ in CH3CN give rate ratios for 2+: 1+ of 173, 148, and 135 at these temperatures, corresponding to a ΔGq …