Journal of Physical Chemistry A, Vol.105, No.10, 2091-2098, 2001
Quantum chemical characterization of singlet and triplet didehydroindenes
Structural and energetic properties for the lowest energy singlet and triplet states of the 19 possible didehydroindene isomers are predicted using coupled cluster, density functional, and multireference second-order perturbation theories. Singlet-triplet splittings and biradical stabilization energies provide a measure of the degree of interaction between the biradical centers. Comparisons to analogous didehydronaphthalenes are made to understand the influence of the five-membered ring. As in other didehydroarenes, proton hyperfine splittings in antecedent monoradicals are economical predictors of biradical state energy splittings.