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J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 2, 1992, 1497 - 1501, DOI: 10.1039/P29920001497
Organoboron substituent effects in EPR/ENDOR spectroscopy. Radical ions with B–C and B–N bonds
Alexander Lichtblau, Wolfgang Kaim, Andreas Schulz and Thomas Stahl
The consequences of R3B coordination (R = CH3, C2H5, C6H11) to nitrogen-containing anion radicals and of Mes2B substitution (Mes = mesityl, C9H11) at C or N
centres of radical ions have been studied for a series of closely related carbo- and hetero-cyclic systems by EPR/ENDOR spectroscopy. Examples include the anion radicals of dinuclear R3B coordination compounds with pyrazine and 4,4
-bipyridine, para-diboryl substituted benzene and biphenyl radical anions and the correspondingly substituted 1,4-dihydropyrazine and 1,1-dihydro-4,4-bipyridine radical cations. Whereas the perturbation of spin distribution is most pronounced for the dimesitylboryl-substituted homoaromatic anions, the isoelectronic cations of the non-aromatic Mes2B-substituted dihydroheterocycles exhibit a substantial decrease of the heteronuclear (11B, 14N) EPR/ENDOR coupling constants owing to a considerable degree of B/N bonding. MO/McLachlan perturbation calculations suggest that both the orbital overlap and the electronegativity differences contribute to the observed effects.
