Probing the Electronic Environment of Methylindoles using Internal Rotation and 14N Nuclear Quadrupole Coupling
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- 作者：Ranil M. Gurusinghe ; Michael J. Tubergen
- 刊名：Journal of Physical Chemistry A
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：May 26, 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：120
- 期：20
- 页码：3491-3496
- 全文大小：246K
- 年卷期：0
- ISSN：1520-5215
文摘
High-resolution rotational spectra were recorded in the 10.5–21.0 GHz frequency range for seven singly methylated indoles. 14N nuclear quadrupole hyperfine structure and spectral splittings arising from tunneling along the internal rotation of the methyl group were resolved for all indole species. The nuclear quadrupole coupling constants were used to characterize the electronic environment of the nitrogen atom, and the program XIAM was used to fit the barrier to internal rotation to the measured transition frequencies. The best fit barriers were found to be 277.1(2), 374.32(4), 414.(5), 331.6(2), 126.8675(15), 121.413(4), and 426(3) cm–1 for 1-methylindole through 7-methylindole, respectively. The fitted barriers were found to be in good agreement with barriers calculated at the ωB97XD/6-311++G(d,p) level. The complete set of experimental barriers is compared to theoretical investigations of the origins of methyl torsional barriers and confirms that the magnitude of these barriers is an overall effect of individual hyperconjugative and structural interactions of many bonding/antibonding orbitals.