An EPR, ENDOR and ESEEM study of the benzene radical cation in CFCl3 matrix: isotopic substitution effects on structure and dynamics
- 1 January 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
- Vol. 1 (21) , 4967-4973
- https://doi.org/10.1039/a905050g
Abstract
A combination of EPR lineshapes, ENDOR and ESEEM was performed to investigate possible Jahn–Teller effects in mono- and perdeuterated benzene radical cation in a polycrystalline CFCl3 matrix. Replacement of one proton by a deuteron was utilized to exclude significantly fast quantum pseudorotation and overall rotary motion below 77 K. Clear evidence was obtained for static Jahn–Teller distortion at temperatures up to 30 K, with major spin densities on two para positions (1 and 4) in agreement with a b2g(χs +) localized orbital. From ENDOR measurements of C6H5D+, the isotropic and dipolar coupling constants for protons occupying both high and low spin density positions were accurately measured. Additional ESEEM experiments and simulations confirmed the results, indicating further that deuteron-isotope substitution does not disturb appreciably the fundamental dynamics of the benzene radical benzene. The hyperfine tensors of C6D6 + in the Jahn–Teller distorted configuration obtained by ESEEM were analogous to those of fully protonated compounds, but the components were scaled by the magnetic moment ratio of deuterons to protons.Keywords
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