Carbenes spectra

Laser flash irradiation of diazofluorene in perdeuterated matrices, in contrast, gave severely nonexponential decay of the carbene spectra. Analyses of the products formed in the low-temperature matrices showed that, as with the EPR studies, the carbene was not undergoing D-abstraction. LFP of the diazo compound 36 in CFCl3-CF2BrCF2Br glasses gave linear first-order decays, and linear Arrhenius plots, which were attributed to classical Cl and Br abstractions. 

The difficulties in the direct recording of carbene spectra were overcome during the last two decades, first by pulse methods, which allow creation of high concentrations of carbenes during a short time interval, and second by the isolation of carbenes in low-temperature matrices (review Zuev and Nefedov, 1989). The spectra obtained by the latter technique and those by pulse methods at room temperature were shown to be the same. 

Another interesting reaction sequence (Scheme 38) affords a tungsten carbene spectra indicate delocalization in the carbene ligand of this complex. 

Diazirine, fluoromethoxy-nitrogen extrusion, 7, 224 Diazirine, methylvinyl-rearrangement, 7, 221 Diazirines addition reactions to Grignard compounds, 7, 2 0 as carbene precursors, 7, 236 IR spectra, 7, 203 microwave spectrum, 7, 199 molecular spectra, 7, 202-204 nitrogen extrusion, 7, 223 NMR, 7, 202 photoconversion to diazoalkanes, 7, 234 photoisomerization, 7, 221 photolysis, 7, 225-227 quantum chemical investigations, 7, 197 reactions... 

Dihalocarbene complexes are useful precursors to new carbenes by nucleophilic displacement of the chlorine substituents. This has been nicely illustrated for Fe(TPP)(=CCl2) by its reaction with two equivalents of Re(CO)5J to give the unusual /t-carbido complex Fe(TPP)=C=Re(CO)4Re(CO)5 which also contains a rhenium-rhenium bond. " The carbido carbon resonance was observed at 211.7 ppm in the C NMR spectrum. An X-ray crystal structure showed a very short Fe=C bond (1.605(13) A, shorter than comparable carbyne complexes) and a relatively long Re=C bond (1.957( 12) A) (Fig. 4, Table III). " ... 

The fact that only ethylene and tetramethylethylene are evolved from exp-[8]rotane 168 and permethyl-exp-[6]rotane 173 upon thermal decomposition leads to the conclusion that the spirocyclopropane moieties in these expanded [n]rotanes fragment only externally and leave carbene moieties behind. Indeed, the MALDI-TOF mass spectra of several exp-[ ]rotanes show fragment ions with M minus 28. Thus, if this fragmentation in an exp-[n]rotane were to continue n times, a cyclic C carbon cluster would be left over. So far, however, a fragment ion with m/z = 480 corresponding to 182 has not been recorded in the mass spectrum of exp-[8]rotane 168 and it remains to be seen whether a Cgo cluster 183 will be detected in the mass spectrum of exp-[12]rotane 171 (Scheme 35). 

UV-vis spectra of matrix-isolated intermediates are not so informative as matrix IR spectra. As a rule, an assignment of the UV spectrum to any intermediate follows after the identification of the latter by IR or esr spectroscopy. However, UV-vis spectra may sometimes be especially useful. It is well known, for example, that the energy of electronic transitions in singlet ground-state carbenes differs from that of the triplet species. In this way UV spectroscopy allows one to identify the ground state of the intermediate stabilized in the matrix in particular cases. This will be exemplified below. 

The IR bands of carbenes [2], [5], and [6] have also been observed in the spectrum after vacuum UV photolysis of matrix-isolated methylacetylene (Huang and Graham, 1990). It was found that a fourth carbene -propendiylidene [8] - was formed in this reaction as well. In accord with ab initio calculations, the first of two absorptions (3292 cm and 1960 cm ) has been assigned to V2 ( ) of cw-[8] and the second one to (a ) of trans-[8]. 

An attempt to measure the IR spectrum of the hydroxy carbene [28] after UV photolysis (A>220 nm) of formaldehyde isolated in an argon matrix was unsuccessful (Sodeau and Lee, 1978). Instead of [28] only hydroxyacetal-dehyde resulting from carbene insertion into the C—H bond of the starting formaldehyde was found in the reaction products. Due to its small size, the... 

Oxo-2,5-cyclohexadienylidene [83] was generated in solid argon at 9 K by irradiation of diazo compound [84] with visible light (A>495 nm) (Sander et al., 1988 Bucher and Sander, 1992 Bucher et al., 1992). The IR, UV, and esr spectra of [83] were in accord with a structure having a triplet state with one delocalized electron. In the IR spectrum of the carbene [83] the r (CO) mode was found at 1496 cm which indicates a bond order of the C—O bond considerably less than 2. The low-temperature reaction of carbene [83] with CO generated the keto-ketene [85]. Irradiation (A = 543 10 nm) of [83] led to its transformation into a very labile species, presumed to be [86], which rearranged back to [83] not only under UV or... 

N-Substituted carbene complexes show y(CN) absorption in the 1470-1620 cm 1 range of the IR spectrum. These data are consistent with the crystallographic evidence for substantial carbon-nitrogen multiple bonding in these compounds. 

The value of -NMR and 13C-NMR spectroscopy in characterizing transition metal carbene complexes was noted in Section III,B,2. The carbene carbon resonance is invariably found at low field (200-400 ppm) in the 13C-NMR spectrum, while protons attached to Ca in 18-electron primary and secondary carbene complexes also resonate at low fields. NMR data for some Ru, Os, and Ir alkylidene complexes and related compounds are given in Table V. 

Reaction of 3 with Ph3C+PF6" resulted in the formation of methylidene complex [(n-C5H5)Re(N0)(PPh3)(CH2)]+ PF6 (8) in 88-100% spectroscopic yields, as shown in Figure 11. Although 8 decomposes in solution slowly at -10 °C and rapidly at 25 °C (She decomposition is second order in 8), it can be isolated as an off-white powder (pure by H NMR) when the reaction is worked up at -23 °C. The methylidene H and 13C NMR chemical shifts are similar to those observed previously for carbene complexes [28]. However, the multiplicity of the H NMR spectrum indicates the two methylidene protons to be non-equivalent (Figure 11). Since no coalescence is.observed below the decomposition point of 8, a lower limit of AG >15 kcal/mol can be set for the rotational barrier about the rhenium-methylidene bond. 

The third member, trimethylenemethane (3), had some relevance to our studies on carbenes, since besides methylene and its simply substituted derivatives trimethylenemethane 3 is one of the few molecules having a triplet ground state.22 Also the experience with 3 could be of help in order to deal with the singlet/triplet differentiation in matrix-isolated carbenes. We learned that, if the calculated IR spectra of the singlet and triplet molecule are sufficiently different, it might be possible to determine the multiplicity of the matrix-isolated species by comparison with the experimental IR spectrum. In this context it is also worth mentioning that we were able to measure the matrix IR spectrum of 3, but a special technique (irradiation in halogen-doped xenon matrices) had to be developed in order to achieve a concentration of 3 sufficient for its IR detection.23... 

Carbene 2 was identified by comparison with the calculated IR spectrum.2411 At that time we were not yet able to carry out own calculations and therefore we gratefully accepted Prof. Schaefer s offer to help us in this respect. Cyclopro-penylidene (2) has, as predicted24 a singlet electronic ground state. The molecule can best be described as a cyclopropenylium ylide with the structure S-2. ... 

Cyclopentadienylidene (10) has an even longer history than cyclopropenyli-dene (2).14 Carbene 10 possesses a triplet ground state. Its ESR spectrum indicates a structure with C2V symmetry. One electron is localized at the car-benic center, the other unpaired electron is delocalized over the five-membered ring (structure T-IO ).30 The IR and UV spectra of 10 are also known.31... 

Our own calculations (B3LYP/6-311+G(d,p)) not only were in agreement with the published relative energies of T-10 and S-10 CA2) (A S-t = 4.3 kcal mol-1) but could also be used to show that the experimental IR spectrum fits better for T-10 than for S-10 and to identify carbene 7, which is also characterized by a strong UV absorption at 238/245 nm. Calculations also verify the isotopic shift of the diazo band in 9 compared to 15N2-9 (exp. —65 cm-1 calc. —73 cm-1). 

Its formation can be observed after short irradiation with a wavelength of A. = 313 nm in argon at 10 K. It is possible to use the comparison of the experimental IR spectrum with the calculated spectra for the singlet and triplet carbene to determine the singlet multiplicity of the isolated molecule. Its structure cannot easily be described by normal valence formulas. The calculated... 

The IR spectrum which can be measured in argon at 10 K after irradiation of diazo compound 18 with k = 313 nm is relatively complex. But the absorptions of 19 can be extracted by a subsequent irradiation with k > 570 nm. The signals of 19 decrease in intensity during this secondary irradiation. They fit much better with the bands calculated for T-19 than for S-19. The product formed under these conditions (X > 570 nm) is the ring-opened carbene 16, which in this case can directly be detected and shows an IR spectrum which is in agreement with that of S-16. Intermediate 16 can be transferred photochemically to 2-cyano-2/7-azirene (17) with X > 313 nm, which is the main product in the primary irradiation of diazocompound 18 with this wavelength. 

The only problem for the matrix-isolation of 21 consisted in the non-availability of a reasonable diazo precursor molecule suited for this technique. But since we already had experience with the preparation of 2,3-dihydrothiazol-2-ylidene46 (see below) by photofragmentation of thiazole-2-carboxylic acid we tried the same method with imidazole-2-carboxylic acid (20). Indeed, irradiation of 20 with a wavelength of 254 nm leads to decarboxylation and the formation of a complex between carbene 21 and CO2. This is shown by the observation that the experimental IR spectrum fits only with the calculated spectrum of complex 21-CC>2 (calculated stabilization energy relative to its fragments 4.3 kcal mol-1). The type of fixation of CO2 to 21 is indicated in the formula S-21 C02. 

The correlation of the recorded IR spectrum with semiempirical calculations and the reversible cleavage into oxohexapentaenylidene (97) and carbon monoxide give a consistent picture for both, dione 96 and carbene 97. The spectrum of 97 correlates with scaled ab initio vibrational frequencies.123 C60 97 should be a triplet molecule. Indeed, Weltner et al.124 observed during the experiment concerning C4O T-88 another triplet ESR signal which they ascribed to T-97. 

Since most of the carbenes 1 have triplet ground states, ESR spectroscopy allows to see the unpaired electrons and determine the local symmetry at the carbene center and the amount of spin delocalization.13-18 Most of the ESR spectra of carbenes reported in the literature have been recorded in organic glasses or powder samples at temperatures between 4 and 77 K. Many carbenes are slightly colored and exhibit characteristic absorptions extending to the visible region of the spectrum. UV/vis spectroscopy not only provides information on the excited states of carbenes, which in many cases are the reactive species during precursor photolyses, but also links low temperature spectroscopy to LFP in solution at room temperature. 

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