Comment on “Synthesis, Characterization, and Structures of a Persistent Aniline Radical Cation”: A New Interpretation Is Necessary†
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Dr. Hans-Gert Korth
Institut für Organische Chemie, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsstrasse 5, 45117 Essen (Germany)
Institut für Organische Chemie, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsstrasse 5, 45117 Essen (Germany)Search for more papers by this authorCorresponding Author
Dr. Hans-Gert Korth
Institut für Organische Chemie, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsstrasse 5, 45117 Essen (Germany)
Institut für Organische Chemie, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsstrasse 5, 45117 Essen (Germany)Search for more papers by this authorHelpful discussions with Prof. Georg Jansen, Institut für Theoretische Chemie, and Dr. Christoph Wölper, Institut für Anorganische Chemie, Universität Duisburg-Essen, are gratefully acknowledged.
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Further scrutiny for the aniline radical cation: The author of this Correspondence claims that the original spectrometric data for 2,4,6-tri-tert-butylaniline (TBA) reported in 2012 do not correspond to a stoichiometrically pure TBA.+SbF6− salt, the quantum-chemical data do not support the reported structural data, and the interpretation of the apparent temperature-dependent structural changes in the solid state is open to interpretations other than the Jahn–Teller effect.
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