Electron affinities of di- and tetracyanoethylene and cyanobenzenes based on measurements of gas-phase electron-transfer equilibria

1986 ◽  
Vol 108 (18) ◽  
pp. 5453-5459 ◽  
Author(s):  
Swapan. Chowdhury ◽  
Paul. Kebarle
Keyword(s):  
Electron Transfer ◽  
Gas Phase ◽  
Electron Affinities

Electron affinities of substituted nitrobenzenes

1989 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. 603-610 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Chowdhury ◽  
H. Kishi ◽  
G. W. Dillow ◽  
P. Kebarle
Keyword(s):  
High Pressure ◽  
Electron Transfer ◽  
Gas Phase ◽  
Substituent Effects ◽  
Negative Ions ◽  
Radical Anions ◽  
Electron Affinities ◽  
Frontier Orbital ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Qualitative Discussion

The electron affinities of 14 substituted nitrobenzenes including nitrobiphenyls were determined by measurement of electron transfer equilibria [1] in the gas phase with a pulsed high pressure mass spectrometer: A− + B = A + B− [1]. These data, when combined with previous determinations from this laboratory, lead to electron affinities for 35 substituted nitrobenzenes and provide a comprehensive data set for the examination of substituent effects. The data are used to derive Taft gas-phase substituent parameters. A qualitative discussion based on frontier orbital molecular theory examines the substituent effect on the benzene and nitrobenzene LUMOs. The lifetimes for electron autodetachment from excited nitrobenzene negative ions, (A−)*, studied earlier by Christophorou, are examined in light of the present electron affinity data. Keywords: electron affinities, substituent effects, frontier orbital treatment, electron autodetachment from nitrobenzene radical anions.

Entropy changes and electron affinities from gas-phase electron-transfer equilibria: A- + B = A + B-

1986 ◽  
Vol 90 (12) ◽  
pp. 2747-2752 ◽  
Author(s):  
Swapan Chowdhury ◽  
Thomas Heinis ◽  
Eric P. Grimsrud ◽  
Paul Kebarle
Keyword(s):  
Electron Transfer ◽  
Gas Phase ◽  
Electron Affinities ◽  
Entropy Changes

Electron affinities of aza-substituted polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

1989 ◽  
Vol 67 (10) ◽  
pp. 1628-1631 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glen W. Dillow ◽  
P. Kebarle
Keyword(s):  
Electron Transfer ◽  
Gas Phase ◽  
Aromatic Hydrocarbons ◽  
Radical Anions ◽  
Electron Affinities ◽  
Reduction Potentials ◽  
Dilute Gas ◽  
Solvation Energies ◽  
Polycyclic Aromatic ◽  
Electron Reduction

Electron affinities for aza-substituted polycyclic aromatics were determined from measurements of electron transfer equilibria in the dilute gas phase with a pulsed electron high pressure mass spectrometer (PHPMS). These are (in kcal/mol): quinazoline (12.7), quinoxaline (15.8), cinnoline (16.0), acridine (20.3), benzo[c]cinnoline (20.6), pyrido[2,3-b]pyrazine (22.5), phenazine (29.5). Solvation energies of the corresponding radical anions in acetonitrile and dimethylformamide are derived from the gas phase data and literature on electron reduction potentials in solution. An observed linear relationship between the electron affinities and the reduction potentials allows estimates of electron affinities to be made for 12 aza compounds whose EA's are too low to be measured with the present method. Keywords: aza-substituted aromatic hydrocarbons, electron affinities, electron transfer, radical anions, reduction potentials, solvation energies of radical anions, stabilities of radical anions.

Electron Transfer and Ligand Addition to Atomic Mercury Cations in the Gas Phase:  Kinetic and Equilibrium Studies at 295 K

2006 ◽  
Vol 45 (24) ◽  
pp. 9646-9653 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiang Zhao ◽  
Eric Flaim ◽  
Lise Huynh ◽  
Michael J. Y. Jarvis ◽  
Ping Cheng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Electron Transfer ◽  
Gas Phase ◽  
Equilibrium Studies ◽  
Ligand Addition ◽  
Atomic Mercury
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