[7−7]- versus [5−5]Bitrovacene: How Linkage Isomerism Affects Exchange Coupling and Redox Splitting1

Autor: Christoph Elschenbroich, Olaf Burghaus, Jörn Plackmeyer, Klaus Harms, Jürgen Pebler
Rok vydání: 2003
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Zdroj: Organometallics. 22:3367-3373
ISSN: 1520-6041
0276-7333
Popis: Thermal rearrangement of dicycloheptatriene C 1 4 H 1 4 and subsequent reaction with (η 5 -cyclopentadienyl)(tetracarbonyl)vanadium affords [7-7]bitrovacene, μ-η 7 :η 7 -C 1 4 H 1 2 [(η 5 -C 5 H 5 )V] 2 (8 . . ). Sterically induced avoidance of a planar μ-η 7 :η 7 -heptafulvalenediyl bridge leads to a complicated packing pattern of varyingly twisted units of 8" which generates a huge unit cell (Z = 72), in stark contrast to the isomer 7 . . , for which Z = 2 applies. The isomers 8" and 7" also differ with regard to the extent of intervanadium electro- and magnetocommunication. Redox splittings δE 1 / 2 of consecutive ET steps are considerably larger for 8 . . , compared to 7 . . , thereby reflecting the higher contribution the larger ring makes to the SOMO. The higher spin density at the C 7 compared to the C 5 carbon atoms, which governs the EPR spectra, effects a pronounced gradation of the exchange coupling parameter determined by magnetic susceptometry: J(7 . . ) = -2.8, J(8 . . ) = -24.1 cm - 1 .
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