Persistent phosphinyl radicals from a bulky diphosphine: an example of a molecular jack-in-the-box

Sarah L. Hinchley; Carole A. Morrison; David W. H. Rankin; Charles L. B. Macdonald; Robert J. Wiacek; Alan H. Cowley; Michael F. Lappert; Grete Gundersen; Jason A. C. Clyburne; Philip P. Power

doi:10.1039/B004889P

Persistent phosphinyl radicals from a bulky diphosphine: an example of a molecular jack-in-the-boxElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: summary of GED details and theoretical results. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/cc/b0/b004889p/

Sarah L. Hinchley,^a Carole A. Morrison,^a David W. H. Rankin,*^a Charles L. B. Macdonald,^b Robert J. Wiacek,^b Alan H. Cowley,^b Michael F. Lappert,^c Grete Gundersen,^d Jason A. C. Clyburne^e and Philip P. Power^f

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^a Department of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, UK
E-mail: dwhr01@holyrood.ed.ac.uk

^b Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA.

^c School of Chemistry, Physics and Environmental Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, UK

^d Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo, Box 1033, Blindern, Oslo, Norway

^e Department of Chemistry, Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, Canada

^f Department of Chemistry, The University of California, Davis, Davis, California, USA

Abstract

The structure of the phosphinyl radical, ṖR₂ [R = CH(SiMe₃)₂], has been determined by gas-phase electron diffraction (GED) together with ab initio molecular orbital calculations, and that of the corresponding diphosphine, (PR₂)₂, has been established by X-ray crystallography; the diphosphine behaves as an energy storage reservoir.

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Persistent phosphinyl radicals from a bulky diphosphine: an example of a molecular jack-in-the-boxElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: summary of GED details and theoretical results. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/cc/b0/b004889p/

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