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Radical ions. 36. Structural changes accompanying the one-electron oxidation of hydrazine and its silyl derivatives

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Journal of the American Chemical Society, 102 (13): 4421--4428 (1980)
DOI: 10.1021/ja00533a022

Abstract

(Me3Si)2NN(SiMe3)2, I, and II are ionized in the gas phase and oxidized in soln. The photoelectron spectroscopically detd. vertical ionization energies of the N atom lone pairs provide information on the ground-state geometry. Oxidn. with AlCl3 in CH2Cl2 adiabatically produces radical cations, for which ESR reveals stabilizing structural changes: the perpendicular Me3SiN halves of the open-chain mol. twist toward planarity, and the chair conformation of the 6-membered ring turns into half-chair by flattening of one SiNNSi link. These observations., as well as literature data on B-, C-, or P-substituted hydrazine radical cations, are rationalized by a geometry-optimized INDO open-shell hypersurface for the parent ion N2H4+.bul., according to which one-electron oxidn. should planarize the tetrasubstituted NN+.bul. fragment skeleton and shorten the N-N bond length by $\sim$25 pm. In addn., three-dimensional tables of INDO 14N and 1H coupling consts. allow comparative ests. of the structural changes during the oxidn. of hydrazine derivs. in soln. [on SciFinder(R)]

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