ISSN:
0018-019X
Keywords:
Chemistry
;
Organic Chemistry
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
Single-Crystal Structures of a Donor-Acceptor-Substituted Cyclopentadiene, Its Cation and Its Anion Dimer: Different Distortion of a Five-Membered Carbon Ring1,4-Dimethyl-2,3,4,6-tetrahydro-1 H-cyclopentapyrazine-5,7-dicarbonitrile, its molecular cation, and its dimer dianion, generated by hydride abstraction or deprotonation, and crystallized, differ remarkably in their structures: the five-membered ring in the neutral compound is of (Z)-butadiene-type, whereas, in the tetrafluorborate salt, a peripheric NCCCCCN⊕ cyanine distortion occurs and in the sodium derivatives, solvated by either one or two 1,2-dimethoxyethane molecules, a cyclopentadienyl anion is formed. The structural perturbations induced by changing molecular charges are rationalized by extensive MNDO calculations, which on geometry optimization, reproduce the experimental structures and, in addition, provide charge distributions, further confirming the nN/π and π/π interactions already recognizable from the structural parameters.
Additional Material:
4 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hlca.19940770810
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