Ab initio studies of structural features not easily amenable to experiment: 9. molecular structure and conformational analysis of hydrazine and methyl‐hydrazine

Abstract
The geometries of three conformations of methyl hydrazine were refined without constraints by ab initio calculations on the 4–21 G level using Pulay's force method and our normal coordinate force relaxation procedure. The most stable conformation is one in which the C‐N bond can interact with the adjacent lone pair on nitrogen. A large number of the structural details calculated are in complete agreement with qualitative predictions based on the anomeric orbital interaction model for organic systems with electron lone pairs.