Synthesis, DFT and kinetic studies of chromic S-methyldithizone
摘要:
Dithizone is one of the most well-known trace-metal analysis reagents, however, its S-alkylated derivatives received very little attention up to date. Synthesis, kinetic studies of its photo- and chronochromic reactions, as well as DFT and TDDFT results are presented here. For comparitive purposes the corresponding phenylmercury complex was also synthesized and included in this study. Blue-shifts in lambda(max) of the S-methylated compounds are in excess of 60 nm as compared to the metal complex. Relative geometry optimized energies, atomic charge distribution in conjunction with H-1 NMR, as well as TDDFTs all point to the pink syn geometry of S-methyldithizone as the prevalent isomer, with the yellow anti geometry only of slightly higher (3.8 kJ/mol) energy. B3LYP provides significantly better UV-visible spectrum approximation than LC-BLYP, OLYP and PW91. At 20 degrees C the rate of the chronochromic reaction is 0.0073 s(-1) in chloroform, and that of the photochromic return reaction is 0.0023 s(-1) in ethanol. (C) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.