Isolation and Crystal Structures of Two Singlet Bis(Triarylamine) Dications with Nonquinoidal Geometries
作者:Shijun Zheng、Stephen Barlow、Chad Risko、Tiffany L. Kinnibrugh、Viktor N. Khrustalev、Simon C. Jones、Mikhail Yu. Antipin、Neil M. Tucker、Tatiana V. Timofeeva、Veaceslav Coropceanu、Jean-Luc Brédas、Seth R. Marder
DOI:10.1021/ja0541534
日期:2006.2.1
We report the first structural data for bis(diarylamine) "bipolarons": we have isolated and crystallographically characterized salts of the dications obtained by two-electron oxidation of E-4,4'-bis[di(p-anisyl)amino]stilbene and EE-2,5-bis4-[di(p-anisyi)amino]styryl}-3,4-di(n-butoxy)thiophene, [1](2+) and [2](2+) respectively. ESR, NMR, and magnetometry suggest both species have singlet ground states. X-ray structures, together with H-1 NMR coupling constants for [2](2+), indicate geometries in which the bond lengths are shifted toward a quinoidal pattern relative to that in the neutral species, but not to a fully quinoidal extent. In particular, the bond-length alternations across the vinylene bridging groups approach zero. DFT calculations with closed-shell singlet configurations reproduce the observed structures well. Our results indicate that singlet species for which one might expect quinoidal geometries (with differences of ca. 0.1 A between formally single and double bonds) on the basis of a limiting valence-bond representation of the structure can, in fact, show structures with significantly different patterns of bond lengths.