1- and 3-Nitreno-2-naphthylcarbenes. A Combined Experimental and Computational Study
作者:Hideo Tomioka、Norio Nakane、Jiro Tatsugi
DOI:10.1246/bcsj.81.1629
日期:2008.12.15
The structures, energies, and thermal stabilities of E and Z isomers of a singlet, a triplet, and a quintet states of naphthalene bearing nitrene and carbene units on adjacent (1,2- and 3,2-) positions were examined by DFT methods. For both 1,2- and 3,2-isomers, singlet quinoidal diradicals were predicted to be the ground state with the corresponding triplet state lying slightly higher in energy. The quintet state of the 1,2-isomer was found to lie approximately 30 kcal mol−1 (1 kcal = 4.184 kJ) above the ground state, while that of the 3,2-isomer was predicted to lie only 9 kcal mol−1 above the ground state. This difference is discussed in terms of loss of energy due to aromaticity between the two isomers. Thermal stability of the ground state in terms of ring-opening and -closure reactions indicated that both isomers prefer to decay by the latter process forming naphtho[b]azetes. Attempts to generate and characterize the ground state quionoidal diradical by matrix IR spectroscopic methods in Ar at low temperature all resulted in the detection of the azete.
通过 DFT 方法研究了在相邻(1,2- 和 3,2-)位置上含有腈和碳单元的萘的单线态、三线态和五线态的 E 和 Z 异构体的结构、能量和热稳定性。对于 1,2- 和 3,2- 异构体来说,单复数二价二叉态被预测为基态,相应的三重态能量稍高。研究发现,1,2-异构体的五重态比基态高出约 30 kcal mol-1(1 kcal = 4.184 kJ),而 3,2- 异构体的五重态仅比基态高出 9 kcal mol-1。我们将从这两种异构体之间的芳香性导致的能量损失的角度来讨论这种差异。基态在开环和闭环反应中的热稳定性表明,这两种异构体更倾向于通过后一过程衰变,形成萘并[b]氮杂环丁烷。尝试在低温下用矩阵红外光谱法在氩气中生成基态的类醌二极体并描述其特征,结果都检测到了氮杂环丁烷。