Volume 129, Issue 34 pp. 10317-10321
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Spectroscopic Observation of the Triplet Diradical State of a Cyclobutadiene

Dr. Arseni Kostenko

Dr. Arseni Kostenko

Schulich Faculty of Chemistry and the Lise Meitner-Minerva Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 32000 Israel

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Dr. Boris Tumanskii

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Dr. Boris Tumanskii

Schulich Faculty of Chemistry and the Lise Meitner-Minerva Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 32000 Israel

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Dr. Yuzuru Kobayashi

Dr. Yuzuru Kobayashi

Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8571 Japan

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Dr. Masaaki Nakamoto

Dr. Masaaki Nakamoto

Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8571 Japan

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Prof. Akira Sekiguchi

Corresponding Author

Prof. Akira Sekiguchi

Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8571 Japan

Interdisciplinary Research Center for Catalytic Chemistry, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba Central 5, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8565 Japan

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Prof. Yitzhak Apeloig

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Prof. Yitzhak Apeloig

Schulich Faculty of Chemistry and the Lise Meitner-Minerva Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 32000 Israel

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First published: 21 June 2017
Citations: 13

Abstract

Tetrakis(trimethylsilyl)cyclobuta-1,3-diene (1) was subjected to a temperature-dependent EPR study to allow the first spectroscopic observation of a triplet diradical state of a cyclobutadiene (2). From the temperature dependent EPR absorption area we derive a singlet→triplet (12) energy gap, EST, of 13.9 kcal mol−1, in agreement with calculated values. The zero-field splitting parameters D=0.171 cm−1, E=0 cm−1 are accurately reproduced by DFT calculations. The triplet diradical 2 is thermally accessible at moderate temperatures. It is not an intermediate in the thermal cycloreversion of cyclobutadiene to two acetylene molecules.

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