A photoelectron spectroscopic investigation of tetra-tert-butyltetrahedrane and of tetra-tert-butylcyclobutadiene
A photoelectron spectroscopic investigation of tetra-tert-butyltetrahedrane and of tetra-tert-butylcyclobutadiene
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四叔丁基四面体和四叔丁基环丁二烯的光电子能谱研究
DOI:
10.1021/ja00522a021
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发表时间:
1980
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A. Schmelzer
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作者:
E. Heilbronner;T. B. Jones;A. Krebs;G. Maier;K. Malsch;Juergen Pocklington;A. Schmelzer
The He (Ia) photoelectron spectra of the title compounds tetra-zm-butyltetrahedrane (3) and tetra-/m-butylcyclo-butadiene (6) and of the tricyclic hydrocarbon 9 (related to 6) havebeen recorded and interpreted within Koopmans’ approximation using ab initio and semiempirical model calculations. It is shown that removal of an electron from the highest occupied molecular orbital, of e symmetry, leads to a typical double-humped band with centroid/c» 7.9 eV, which is indicative of the expected Jahn-Teller distortion of the radical cation 3+. The rather good agreement between theory and experiment lends credibility to the conclusion derived from the theoretical calculations that in 1-3 the cross term between vicinal, localized CC a orbitals (ie, localized on two opposed edges of the tetrahedron) is practically zero, in contrast to thelarge interaction term between vicinal, localized CC orbitals incubane. Comparison of our photoelectron spectroscopic results for 6 and 9 with those of other cyclobutadiene derivatives shows that the orbital sequence is(=