Possible intermolecular association in triphenyltin chloride in the solution state as detected by NMR spectroscopy.

NMR measurements ((119)Sn chemical shift, line width and (13)C relaxation) were made on triphenyltin chloride in two solutions, 2.5 and 0.75 mol% in CDCl(3), at several temperatures.

13C NMR relaxation study of molecular motions in tetraphenyltin and tetra(p-tolyl)tin in solution.

The Woessner approach is applied to the 13C relaxation data for tetraphenyltin (1) and tetra(p-tolyl)tin (2) in CDCl3 solution over the temperature range 5-42 degrees C to obtain correlation times for rotational motions and hence the activation barriers. Quantum mechanical computations were carried out to obtain the rotational energy barriers for comparison. For 2 the relaxation data indicate (1) slower ring rotation than in 1, (2) highly hindered internal rotation of the methyl group.