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Observation of a thermally accessible triplet state resulting from rotation around a main-group π bond
Arseni Kostenko1, Boris Tumanskii1, Miriam Karni1
1Schulich Faculty of Chemistry and Lise Meitner-Minerva Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000 (Israel).
Abstract:
We report the first direct spectroscopic observation by electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy of a triplet diradical that is formed in a thermally induced rotation around a main-group π bond, that is, the SiSi double bond of tetrakis(di-tert-butylmethylsilyl)disilene (1). The highly twisted ground-state geometry of singlet 1 allows access to the perpendicular triplet diradical 2 at moderate temperatures of 350-410 K. DFT-calculated zero-field splitting (ZFS) parameters of 2 accurately reproduce the experimentally observed half-field transition. Experiment and theory suggest a thermal equilibrium between 1 and 2 with a very low singlet-triplet energy gap of only 7.3 kcal mol(-1) .
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