Tricyclopropylamine and Its Radical Cation

Autor: Meijere, Armin de, Chaplinski, Vladimir, Winsel, Harald, Kusnetsov, Mikhael A., Rademacher, Paul, Boese, Roland, Haumann, Thomas, Traetteberg, Marit, Schleyer, Paul von R., Zywietz, Tosja, Jiao, Haijun, Merstetter, Pascal, Gerson, Fabian
Zdroj: Angewandte Chemie. International Edition; August 16, 1999, Vol. 38 Issue: 16 p2430-2433, 4p
Abstrakt: A surprisingly high first vertical ionization energy (8.44 eV) and an unusually high oxidation potential are exibited by tricyclopropylamine (1)—in sharp contrast to triisopropylamine. These are attributed to the near-tetrahedral geometry of 1 at the N atom and the perpendicular orientation—with respect to the N-orbital axis—of the cyclopropyl groups. γ-Irradiation of 1 led to the radical cation 1.+, which, in accord with computations, has a planar C3h-symmetrical structure. The EPR-spectroscopic and computational results disclose a dramatic, previously not reported, conformational change on going from 1 to 1.+.
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