Semiempirical Investigation of Stilbene-Linked Diradicals and Magnetic Study of Their Bis(N-tert-butylnitroxide) Variants
作者:Naoki Yoshioka、Paul M. Lahti、Takashi Kaneko、Yoshihiro Kuzumaki、Eishun Tsuchida、Hiroyuki Nishide
DOI:10.1021/jo00094a046
日期:1994.7
The electronic states of open-shell stilbene diradicals were st;hied. Previously used semiempirical MO-CI methods were applied to stilbenes having dimethylene, dioxyl, and dinitroxide centers in o,o'-, o,m'-, o,p'-, m,m'-, m,p'-, and p,p'-substitution patterns, and the various singlet-triplet energy gaps were computed to predict qualitative ground state spin multiplicities. Singlet and triplet spin states were essentially degenerate in the m,m'-isomers of disjoint connectivity, while nondisjoint o,m'- and m,p'-isomers had triplet computed ground states. Nitroxide-based diradicals showed considerably smaller computational exchange coupling energies than did other diradical models studied. As a tests of these computations, stilbenes with two N-tert-butyl nitroxide groups at the o,m'-, m,m'-, and m,p'-positions were prepared, and their magnetic properties were studied by ESR and-magnetic susceptibility measurements. The m,m'- and m,p'-isomers were found experimentally to have singlet and triplet ground states, respectively, in accord with the qualitative computed predictions.