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JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Volume 69, Issue 16, Pages 5247-5260Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jo049500r
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2-(4-Azidophenyl)-4,4,5,5-tetramethyl-4,5-dihydro-1H-imidazole-3-oxide-1-oxyl (14),2-(4-azidophenyl)benzimidazole-1-oxide-3-oxyl (16), 2-(4-azidophenyl)-1,2,6-triphenylverdazyl (19), 2-(3-azidophenyl)-4,4,5,5-tetramethyl-4,5-dihydro-1H-imidazole-3-oxide-1-oxyl (21), and (3-azidophenyl)-N-tertbutyl-N-aminoxyl (25) were photolyzed in frozen solution to give S = 3/2 state ESR spectra of the corresponding nitrenophenyl radicals with the following zero-field splitting parameters: \D/hc\ = 0.277 cm(-1), \E/hc\ less than or equal to 0.002 cm(-1) (7 from 14); \D/hc\ = 0.256 cm(-1), \E/hc\ less than or equal to 0.002 cm(-1) (8 from 16); \D/hc\ = 0.288 cm(-1), \E/hc\ less than or equal to 0.002 cm(-1) (9 from 19); \D/hc\ = 0.352 cm(-1), \E/hc\ = 0.006 cm(-1) (10 from 21); \D/hc\ = 0.336 cm(-1), \E/hc\ = 0.004 cm(-1) (11 from 25). UB3LYP/6-31G* computations and ESR spectroscopic analyses suggest that these are nitreno radicals, even para-linked systems with possible quinonoidal resonance forms. Neat samples of azidophenyl radicals 14 and 21 showed bulk paramagnetic behavior, consistent with the lack of close contacts in their crystal structures. Efforts to make photolabile coordination complexes of 14 and 21 with paramagnetic transition metal ions were unsuccessful: Cu(ClO4)(2).6H(2)O instead oxidized them to the corresponding diamagnetic nitrosonium perchlorate salts.
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