Journal of the American Chemical Society

Charge-transfer structures of aromatic electron donor-acceptor complexes leading to electron transfer with the electrophilic nitrosonium cation

EK Kim, JK Kochi

Index: Kim; Kochi Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1991 , vol. 113, # 13 p. 4962 - 4974

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Citation Number: 93

Abstract

Abstract: Benzene and hexamethylbenzene partake in the rapid formation of unique electron donoracceptor (EDA) complexes with the nitrosonium cation, as reflected in the association constants that vary markedly from K= 0.5 to 31 OOO M-*, respectively. The I: I EDA complexes of electron-rich arene donors exhibit particularly high degrees of charge transfer that are established by X-ray crystallography coupled to the infrared spectroscopic ...