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  • Title: Substituent effects on the energies of the electronic transitions of geminally diphenyl-substituted trimethylenemethane (TMM) radical cations. Experimental and theoretical evidence for a twisted molecular and localized electronic structure.
    Author: Namai H, Ikeda H, Kato N, Mizuno K.
    Journal: J Phys Chem A; 2007 May 24; 111(20):4436-42. PubMed ID: 17472352.
    Abstract:
    Substituent effects on the energies (Eob) of electronic transitions of geminally diphenyl-substituted trimethylenemethane (TMM) radical cations 5a-k*+ and those of structurally related 1,1-diarylethyl cations 7a-k+ were determined experimentally by using electronic transition spectroscopy. In addition, transition energies of these radical cations were determined by using density functional theory (DFT) and time-dependent (TD)-DFT calculations. The electronic transition bands of 5a-k*+ and 7a-k+ have maxima (lambdaob) that appear at 500-432 and 472-422 nm, respectively. A Hammett treatment made by plotting the Eob values relative to that of the diphenyl-TMM radical cation 5d*+ (DeltaEob) vs the cationic substituent parameter sigma+ give a favorable correlation with a boundary point at sigma+ = 0.00 and a positive rho for sigma+ < 0 and a negative rho for sigma+ > 0. A comparison of the lambdaob and rho values for 5a-k*+ and 7a-k+ suggests that the chromophore of 5*+ is substantially the same as that of 7+. The results of TD-DFT calculations, which reproduce the experimental electronic transition spectra and relationships between DeltaEob and sigma+, and suggest that the absorption band of 5*+ is associated with the SOMO-X --> SOMO transition, while that of 7+ is due to the HOMO --> LUMO transition. Another interesting observation is that Cl and Br substituents in the diphenyl-substituted TMM radical cations and 1,1-diarylethyl cations 7a-k+ act as electron-donating groups in terms of their effect on the corresponding electronic transitions. The results show that the molecular structure of 5*+ is a considerably twisted and that 5*+ has a substantially localized electronic state in which the positive charge and odd electron are localized in the respective diarylmethyl and the allyl moieties.
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