화학공학소재연구정보센터
Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, Vol.376, 489-494, 2002
Extremely pi-delocalized nature of dianthrylcarbene-based high spin systems as studied by CW and pulsed 2D electron spin transient nutation spectroscopy
Electronic and molecular structures of bis(9,9'-dianthrylcarbene) and tris(9,9'-dianthrylcarbene) coupled by 1,4-diethynylbenzene and 1,3,5-triethynylbenzene, respectively, have been investigated by cw and pulsed ESR spectroscopy. Their spin multiplicities were identified by two-dimensional electron spin transient nutation (2D-ESTN) method based on the pulsed ESR technique. The fine-structure ESR spectra observed after UV-irradiation of the corresponding diazo precursor were analyzed with the help of a hybrid eigenfield method. The biscarbene, is spin-singlet in the ground state and a thermally accessible triplet state with an axial symmetry was detected, showing that the biscarbene undergoes a linear and perpendicular conformation of the two 9,9'dianthrylcarbene moieties. Such a conformation gives rise to an extremely large amount of pi-spin delocalization in ethynylbenzene-based 9,9'-dianthrylcarbene derivatives. The electronic and molecular structures of tris(9,9'-dianthrylcarbene) in the septet ground state are also discussed in this context. The oligocarbenes under study are a novel series of Skell-type high-spin carbenes characterized by extremely pi-delocalized nature.