| Autor: |
Flores J; Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Boston, 100 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, Massachusetts 02125, United States., Ruscitti M; Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Boston, 100 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, Massachusetts 02125, United States., Khani S; Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Boston, 100 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, Massachusetts 02125, United States., Reilly NJ; Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Boston, 100 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, Massachusetts 02125, United States. |
| Abstrakt: |
Using a combination of resonant two-photon two-color ionization (R2C2PI) and laser-induced fluorescence/dispersed fluorescence spectroscopy, we have examined the A ~ 2 A ″ ← X ~ 2 A ″ transition of the resonance-stabilized α-hydrofulvenyl radical, produced from methylcyclopentadiene dimer in a jet-cooled discharge. Like the related 1,4-pentadienyl and cyclohexadienyl radicals, the α-hydrofulvenyl à -state lifetime is orders of magnitude shorter than the predicted f -value implies, indicative of rapid nonradiative decay. The transition is fully allowed by symmetry but considerably weakened by transition moment interference. Intensity borrowing among a ' modes brings about static (i.e., Condon) and vibronic (i.e., Herzberg-Teller) moments of similar size, the result being a spectrum substantially less origin-dominated than is usually observed for extensively delocalized radicals. Twenty A ~ -state modes and twelve X ~ -state modes are identified with high confidence and assignments for several others are suggested. In addition, from a series of two-color appearance potential scans with the A ~ -state zero-point level serving as an intermediate, we obtain a field-free adiabatic ionization energy (AIE) of 7.012(1) eV. For a set of 21 resonance-stabilized radicals bearing 5 to 11 carbon atoms, it emerges that the field-free AIE obtained by R2C2PI methods under jet-cooled conditions lies very close to the average of B3LYP/6-311G++(d,p) (with harmonic zero-point energy) and CBS-QB3 0 K calculations, with a mean absolute deviation of only 0.010(7) eV (approximately 1 kJ/mol). On average, this represents a nearly 10-fold improvement in accuracy over CBS-QB3 predictions for the same set of radicals. |
