Experimental charge density studies of disordered N-phenylpyrrole and N-(4-fluorophenyl)pyrrole.

The static electron densities of the title compounds were extracted from high-resolution X-ray diffraction data using the nucleus-centered finite multipole expansion technique. The interpretation of the data collected for the N-phenylpyrrole crystal revealed a static disorder that could be successfully resolved within the aspherical-atom formalism. The local and integrated topological properties of the density obtained via a constrained multipole refinement are in statistical agreement with those calculated at the B3LYP/cc-pVTZ level of theory for the isolated molecule and for those derived from the experimental density of the para-fluorinated derivative N-(4-fluorophenyl)pyrrole.

Kinetics of intramolecular charge transfer with N-phenylpyrrole in alkyl cyanides.

For the electron acceptor/donor molecule N-phenylpyrrole (PP), the fast intramolecular charge transfer (ICT) reaction accompanied by dual fluorescence from a locally excited (LE) and an ICT state is investigated in alkyl cyanide solvents as a function of temperature. After a comparison of the X-ray crystal structure of PP with calculations from the literature, absorption and fluorescence spectra of PP in a series of solvents over a wide polarity range are discussed. ICT with PP strongly depends on solvent polarity and starts to appear in solvents more polar than diethyl ether.

Preparation and characterization of regioisomerically pure 1,7-disubstituted perylene bisimide dyes.

A detailed study on bromination and subsequent imidization of perylene bisanhydride with cyclohexylamine is reported. The present results reveal that previously reported 1,7-difunctionalized perylene bisimides are presumably contaminated with the respective 1,6 regioisomers. N,N'-Dicyclohexyl-1,7-dibromoperylene bisimide 1,7-3 is obtained for the first time in isomerically pure form, and its structure is unequivocally confirmed by X-ray analysis.

Metal coordination to the formal P=N bond of an iminophosphorane and charge-density evidence against hypervalent phosphorus(V).

The iminophosphorane Ph(2)P(CH(2)Py)(NSiMe(3)) (1) was treated with deprotonating alkali metal reagents to give [(Et(2)O)Li[Ph(2)P(CHPy)(NSiMe(3))]] (2), [[Ph(2)P(CH(2)Py)(NSiMe(3))]Li[Ph(2)P(CHPy)(NSiMe(3))]] (3) and [[Ph(2)P(CH(2)Py)(NSiMe(3))]Na[Ph(2)P(CHPy)(NSiMe(3))]] (4). We report their coordination behaviour in solid-state structures and NMR spectroscopic features in solution. Furthermore, we furnish experimental evidence against hypervalency of the phosphorus atom in iminophosphoranes from experimental charge-density studies and subsequent topological analysis.

Neutral and ionic dissociation patterns in hexacoordinate silicon chelates: a model nucleophilic substitution at pentacoordinate silicon.

A model nucleophilic-displacement reaction coordinate at pentacoordinate silicon is demonstrated by neutral and ionic dissociation equilibria through a stable hexacoordinate complex.

Si-E (E = N, O, F) bonding in a hexacoordinated silicon complex: new facts from experimental and theoretical charge density studies.

The concept of hypervalency in molecules, which hold more than eight valence electrons at the central atom, still is a topic of constant debate. There is general interest in silicon compounds with more than four substituents at the central silicon atom. The dispute, whether this silicon is hypervalent or highly coordinated, is enlightened by the first experimental charge density determination and subsequent topological analysis of three different highly polar Si-E (E = N, O, F) bonds in a hexacoordinated compound.

[Li(CH(Me)P(Ph)2(NCO2Me))2(THF)2]: crystal, solution, and calculated structure of a N-delocalized lithium phosphazene.

The first crystal structure of the lithium complex of a P-alkyl-P,P-diphenyl(N-methoxycarbonyl)phosphazene has been characterized. It is dimeric, with the anion chelating the lithium in an unusual six-membered ring. A monomer-dimer equilibrium has been identified in THF solution.