Charge transfer complex, 207 spectra

The TCT method of obtaining relative molecular electron affinities and gas phase acidities has a demonstrated precision of 0.05 to 0.10 eV in the midrange of values from 0.5 eV to 3.0 eV. At the extremes the precision is less, 0.2 eV. Most of the TCT Ea are ground-state electron affinities. The exceptions are the HPMS electron affinities determined for azulene, anthracene, QJv, and CS2, and the ICR value for fluoroanil. The TCT method has been applied to more than 200 molecules. About 30 have been determined by the HPMS and ICR methods and many have been confirmed by the ECD method. Many have also been confirmed by the half-wave reduction potential method and/or solution charge transfer complex spectra. These will be discussed in Chapter 10. The colli-sional ionization method of measuring relative electron affinities can produce inverted orders of intensities and give excited-state Ea rather than ground-state Ea. 

Charge-transfer absorption is important because it produces very large absorbances, providing for a much more sensitive analytical method. One important example of a charge-transfer complex is that of o-phenanthroline with Fe +, the UV/Vis spectrum for which is shown in Figure 10.17. Charge-transfer absorption in which the electron moves from the ligand to the metal also is possible. 

Equilibrium constants for complex formation (A") have been measured for many donor-acceptor pairs. Donor-acceptor interaction can lead to formation of highly colored charge-transfer complexes and the appearance of new absorption bands in the UV-visible spectrum may be observed. More often spectroscopic evidence for complex formation takes the font) of small chemical shift differences in NMR spectra or shifts in the positions of the UV absorption maxima. In analyzing these systems it is important to take into account that some solvents might also interact with donor or acceptor monomers. 

Laali and Lattimer (1989 see also Laali, 1990) observed arenediazonium ion/crown ether complexes in the gas phase by field desorption (FD) and by fast atom bombardment (FAB) mass spectrometry. The FAB-MS spectrum of benzenediazonium ion/18-crown-6 shows a 1 1 complex. In the FD spectrum, apart from the 1 1 complex, a one-cation/two-crown complex is also detected. Dicyclo-hexano-24-crown-6 appears to complex readily in the gas phase, whereas in solution this crown ether is rather poor for complexation (see earlier in this section) the presence of one or three methyl groups in the 2- or 2,4,6-positions respectively has little effect on the gas-phase complexation. With 4-nitrobenzenediazonium ion, 18-crown-6 even forms a 1 3 complex. The authors assume charge-transfer complexes such as 11.13 for all these species. There is also evidence for hydride ion transfer from the crown host within the 1 1 complex, and for either the arenediazonium ion or the aryl cation formed from it under the reaction conditions in the gas phase in tandem mass spectrometry (Laali, 1990). 

Fig. 14 Transient absorption spectrum of anthracene cation radical (ANT+ ) obtained upon 30-ps laser excitation of the [ANT, OsOJ charge-transfer complex in dichloro-methane. The inset shows the authentic spectrum of ANT+ obtained by an independent (electrochemical) method. Reproduced with permission from Ref. 96b.

Fig. 20 Deconvolution of the transient spectrum obtained upon the application of a 25-ps laser pulse to a solution of [hexamethylbenzene, NO+] charge-transfer complex showing the Wheland intermediate (430 nm) and the hexamethylbenzene cation radical (495 nm). Courtesy of S.M. Hubig and J.K. Kochi, unpublished results.

The UV spectrum of 30 (Fig. 16) exhibits a large bathochromic shift (Amax = 270 nm) compared to other related compounds such as 2-pen-tamethyldsilanyl-N-methylpyrrole (Amax = 248 nm). A similar bathochromic shift is observed in charge-transfer complexes of pyrrolo-... 

Electron transfer [Eq. (1)] would occur at a rate near the diffusion limit if it were exothermic. However, a close estimate of the energetics including solvation effects has not been made yet. Recent support of the intermediacy of a charge transfer complex such as [Ph—NOf, CP] comes from the observation of a transient (Amax f 440 nm, t =2.7 0.5 ms) upon flashing (80 J, 40 ps pulse) a degassed solution (50% 2-propanol in water, 4 X 10 4 M in nitrobenzene, 6 moles 1 HCl) 15). The absorption spectrum of the transient is in satisfactory agreement with that of Ph—NO2H, which in turn arises from rapid protonation of Ph—NOf under the reaction conditions ... 

Stade observed an interesting oxidation with tetrachloro-p-benzoquinone. In methylene chloride an intense red coloration appears, but no signal in the ESR spectrum. Apparently only a charge-transfer complex 61 is formed, without electron transfer. A similar observation has been made in the reaction of N, N, N, N -tetramethyl-p-phenylenediamine with tetrachloro-p-benzoquinone in non-polar solvents Here, as in our case, electron transfer does not take place until a polar solvent such as acetonitrile is added. The ESR spectrum initially shows the doublet of 55 (23,2 Gauss) overlapping with the sharp sin et of tetrachloro-semi-quinone 62 (which has a somewhat smaller g factor). The semiquinone signal slowly disappears until finally only the doublet of 58 remains. The following scheme summarizes the reaction course ... 

The combination of two redox reagents in the roles of donor and acceptor normally results in the formation of a charge transfer complex where the crystal structure of planar molecules show stacks of alternating donor and acceptor molecules (Figure la). The interplanar spacing between the molecules is usually shorter than the accepted norm of about 400 pm, a result interpreted as due to electronic interaction in agreement with the appearance of charge transfer bands in the absorption spectrum. 

Spontaneous copolymerization of cyclopentene (CPT) with sulfur dioxide (SOt) suggests the participation of a charge transfer complex in the initiation and propagation step of the copolymerization. The ESR spectrum together with chain transfer and kinetic studies showed the presence of long lived SOg radical. Terpolymerization with acrylonitrile (AN) was analyzed as a binary copolymerization between CPT-SOt complex and free AN, and the dilution effect proved this mechanism. Moderately high polymers showed enhanced thermal stability, corresponding to the increase of AN content in the terpolymer. 

By comparing both series of results it is possible to conclude that the TSDC spectrum is notably more detailed, because it correspond to lower frequencies due to the greater splitting of the relaxation peaks. However both types of measurements can be considered as complementary. The technique used in charge-transfer complexes has been shown to be useful also in the case of polymers with high conductivity at high temperatures. 

Recently, Tanikawa et all94) discussed the photoconductivity of poly[i-( i-N-carbazolyethyl)-L-glutamate] and its charge transfer complex with 2,4,7, -trinitro-9-fluorenone. The photocurrents in this polymer are about one order of magnitude smaller than those of PVK at all measured wavelengths. The complex with TNF has a peak photocurrent at 600 nm while the absorption spectrum of the polymer... 

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