A study of lone-pair interactions of tetracyclic diamines by ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy

1986 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 760-763 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Henry Werstiuk ◽  
Douglas Neve Butler ◽  
Sushil Datta

The ultraviolet photoelectron spectra of 2,7-diazatetracyclo[3.3.3.0.4,90.8,11]undecane (1) and its N,N-dimethyl- and methylene-bridged analogues 2 and 3 are documented. The spectrum of 2, which exhibits a nitrogen lone-pair splitting of 0.95 ± 0.1 eV, is interpreted on the basis of an interaction of "inside" lone pairs of the 1,2-diamine. Apparently this is the first report of a study of such an interaction. The spectrum of 1 is consistent with our view that 1 is an intramolecularly hydrogen bonded species in which the lone pairs are "inside–outside".


Data on calculated orbital energies and experimentally measured ionization potentials of carbocyclic and heterocyclic aromatic compounds are compared and contrasted. The ordering or orbital energies and ionization potentials do not always seem to parallel one another, probably owing to either electron correlation effects, or to deviations from Koopman’s theorem. The effects on photoelectron spectra of using different light sources and analysers are discussed in relation to their bearing on the orbital orderings of aromatic compounds. The high resolution He 584 A. photoelectron spectrum of pyridine is shown to be open to two interpretations regarding the ordering of the ionization potentials of the π orbitals and the ‘nitrogen lone pair’ (n). One of the interpretations involves the three lowest pyridine ionization potentials being π (9.2 eV), π L (9.5 eV) and n (10.5 eV) whilst the other has the first three ionization potentials being the order π , n, π . The photoelectron spectra of substituted pyridines and diazines are discussed in the light of the two possible explanations for the pyridine spectrum.







1973 ◽  
Vol 95 (19) ◽  
pp. 6506-6508 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. H. Cowley ◽  
M. J. S. Dewar ◽  
D. W. Goodman ◽  
J. R. Schweiger






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