A search for blues brothers: X-ray crystallographic/spectroscopic characterization of the tetraarylbenzidine cation radical as a product of aging of solid magic blue
| Autor: | Marat R. Talipov, Anitha Boddeda, Khushabu Thakur, Mohammad Mosharraf Hossain, Rajendra Rathore |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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chemistry.chemical_classification
Steric effects Bromine 010405 organic chemistry Aryl Benzidines Organic Chemistry Salt (chemistry) chemistry.chemical_element 010402 general chemistry Triphenylamine Crystallography X-Ray 01 natural sciences Biochemistry Benzidine Article 0104 chemical sciences Dication Crystallography chemistry.chemical_compound chemistry Cations Amine gas treating Physical and Theoretical Chemistry |
| Zdroj: | Organicbiomolecular chemistry. 14(10) |
| ISSN: | 1477-0539 |
| Popis: | Magic blue (MB+˙ SbCl6− salt), i.e. tris-4-bromophenylamminium cation radical, is a routinely employed one-electron oxidant that slowly decomposes in the solid state upon storage to form so called ‘blues brothers’, which often complicate the quantitative analyses of the oxidation processes. Herein, we disclose the identity of the main ‘blues brother’ as the cation radical and dication of tetrakis-(4-bromophenyl)benzidine (TAB) by a combined DFT and experimental approach, including isolation of TAB+˙ SbCl6− and its X-ray crystallography characterization. The formation of TAB in aged magic blue samples occurs by a Scholl-type coupling of a pair of MB followed by a loss of molecular bromine. The recognition of this fact led us to the rational design and synthesis of tris(2-bromo-4-tert-butylphenyl)amine, referred to as ‘blues cousin’ (BC: Eox1 = 0.78 V vs. Fc/Fc+, λmax(BC+˙) = 805 nm, emax = 9930 cm−1 M−1), whose oxidative dimerization is significantly hampered by positioning the sterically demanding tert-butyl groups at the para-positions of the aryl rings. A ready two-step synthesis of BC from triphenylamine and the high stability of its cation radical (BC+˙) promise that BC will serve as a ready replacement for MB and an oxidant of choice for mechanistic investigations of one-electron transfer processes in organic, inorganic, and organometallic transformations. |
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