Unusual Reactivity of the Radical Cations of Some Simple Trivalent Organophosphorus Compounds toward Dimethyl Disulfide and Dimethyl Diselenide
摘要:
Dimethyl disulfide and dimethyl diselenide are known to readily undergo charge exchange with gaseous conventional radical cations containing oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur functionalities. In sharp contrast, the radical cations of trimethylphosphine and trimethyl phosphite rapidly abstract CH3S. and CH3Se. groups from dimethyl disulfide and dimethyl diselenide, respectively, in a dual-cell Fourier-transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometer, These sorts of abstraction reactions have been reported earlier only for distonic radical cations (ions with spatially separated charge and radical sites). Isomerization of the organophosphorus radical cations to their distonic forms prior to or during the reaction was ruled out by demonstrating that the connectivity in (CH3)(3)P-.+ does not change during the reaction: the CH3S. abstraction product has the structure (CH3P+-SCH3. Instead, the abstraction reactions are likely initiated by thermoneutral charge exchange. The neutral phosphorus compound then replaces a CH3S. or CH3Se. group in ionized dimethyl disulfide and ionized dimethyl diselenide, respectively, In support of this mechanism, three different neutral phosphorus compounds were shown to replace CH3S. in the radical cation of dimethyl disulfide. Phosphorus radical cations with high recombination energies were found to react with dimethyl disulfide by exclusive charge exchange, Hence, the abstraction reactions require a radical cation with a recombination energy close to the ionization energy of dimethyl disulfide (8.1 eV) and dimethyl diselenide (7.9 eV). Further, the reactions seem to be limited to phosphorus-containing ions since radical cations with nitrogen and sulfur functionalities do not undergo these reactions even when their recombination energies are close to 8.1 eV.
Preparation and structure of certain phosphorus-centred radical cations. An electron spin resonance study
作者:Akinori Hasegawa、Glen D. G. McConnachie、Martyn C. R. Symons
DOI:10.1039/f19848001005
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60Co γ-rays at 77 K gave the corresponding cations, [·PL3]+, characterised by their e.s.r. spectra. The spectra establish that the SOMO for these cations is considerably localised on phosphorus, which contributes extensive atomic 3s and 3p character. The results confirm and extend previous studies using sulphuric acid matrices. The tendency for these cations to react with corresponding neutral molecules
Monomer and dimer cations of trimethylphosphine: a radiation chemical and e.s.r study
作者:Martyn C. R. Symons、Glen D. G. McConnachie
DOI:10.1039/c39820000851
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The 1H hyperfine coupling for Me3P˙+ ions generated radiolytically in freon at 77 K (ca. 11.5 G) is much greater than for the dimer cations (Me3P)2+(ca. 3.3 G): this is explained in terms of a decreasign tendency for σ–π delocalisation as the pyramidal character of the Me3P unit increases, coupled with a tendency towards σ-orbital localisation in σ*-radicals.