Conformational splitting

More complicated splitting patterns conform to an extension of the n + 1 rule and will be discussed in Section 13 11... 

Here, the configuration integral Q has been split into tliree integrals the integration j is over all conformations where 71 is in the ith rotameric state. F is the configurational... 

A theoretical basis for the description of the cationic complex [Cp Ru(PR3)2 = = SiR2]+ can also be given. For a d6 CpML2 system, a complete splitting of the three orbitals (octahedral symmetry) is to be expected. Consequently, a coordinated silylene ligand (without any base) should prefer the indicated (Fig. 10) conformation. 

Differences in the. solid-state NMR signals of crystalline forms having identical conformations have been also observed. For instance, well-crystallized a form samples of i-PP show splittings for the methyl (22.6, 22.1 ppm) and methylene resonances (45.2, 44.2 ppm) into two lines with relative intensities 2 1 [117,118]. These splittings have been interpreted in terms of the known crystalline packing of the a form, which is characterized by pairs of 3/1 helices of opposite handedness at closer distances (Fig. 10). This generates inequivalence between the carbons indicated as A and those indicated as B in Fig. 10 [117,118]. 

A good correlation with ordinary Hammett a values was based on 16 well-behaved substituents, and p-SOMe conformed well to this. Various other substituents showed deviations which were attributed to enhanced + R effects. These included p-SPh and this was explained in terms of 7t(pd) bonding, which was thus taken to play no part in the effect of p-SOMe on the methyl hyperfine splitting. More recently several 4-substituted benzyl radicals of the type RSO C6H4CH2 (n — 0,1 or 2 R = Me, Ph, Tol, COMe or OMe) have been examined by ESR spectroscopy249. The ability to delocalize spin density onto the substituent decreases in general as n increases and the effect of R depends on the oxidation state of sulfur. These authors have devised a new scale of substituent effects (sigma dot... 

The ESR spectra of a large variety of sulfonyl radicals have been obtained photolytically in liquid phase over a wide range of temperature. Some selected data are summarized in Table 2. The magnitudes of hyperfine splittings and the observations of line broadening resulting from restricted rotation about the C—S bond have been used successfully in conjunction with INDO SCF MO calculations to elucidate both structure and conformational properties. Thus the spin distribution in these species is typical of (T-radicals with a pyramidal center at sulfur and in accord with the solid-state ESR data. 

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