DIPOLE MOMENTS AND STRUCTURE OF MOLECULAR COMPOUNDS: PART I. ALIPHATIC AND AROMATIC AMINE PICRATES
Dipole moment measurements have been made for some aliphatic and aromatic amine picrates in dioxane solution. The fractional ionic character of these complexes in the ground state has been calculated from μN, the observed value of dipole moment; μ0, the vector sum of the moments of the components of the complex; μ1, the moment resulting from complete one-electron transfer; and known values of S, using the charge-transfer theory of Mulliken. For these complexes of the n + hσd type, the charge-transfer process lies in the direction of the symmetry axis N+O−, the picture corresponding to an energy of interaction U, versus charge-transfer co-ordinate (C) curve with a shallow minimum showing an inner complex corresponding to (C = 1), b = a2 or b2 > a2, and an activated complex (roughly between C = 0.3 to 0.5) corresponding to an intermediate.