C-nitroso compounds. Part XXVII. The lability of chlorine in (1-chloroalkyl)nitroxides. Reaction with tri-n-butyltin hydride and nitric oxide

An EPR study of the radical addition to 3-nitropentan-2-one as an archetype of α-carbonylnitroalkanes

Carbon, silicon, germanium, tin and lead-centered radicals were reacted with 3-nitropentan-2-one and 3-nitropentan-2-ol inside the cavity of an electron paramagnetic resonance spectrometer. In all cases, selective addition to the nitrogroup was observed with detection of the corresponding oxynitroxide radicals. In the case of the carbonyl substrate, alkyl acyl nitroxides were also detected because of α-photocleavage. The oxynitroxides decayed with a first order kinetics via fragmentation of the carbon-nitrogen bond (denitration). Unexpectedly, the activation parameters were fairly similar to those previously reported for the corresponding tert-butyl oxynitroxides and almost independent from the presence of a carbonyl or a hydroxyl group on the carbon adjacent to the one bearing the nitrogroup.

Density functional theory study of 14N isotropic hyperfine coupling constants of organic radicals

Nitrogen hyperfine coupling constants (hfccs) of organic radicals have been calculated by density functional theory (DFT) methodology. The capability of the B3LYP functional, combined with 6-31G*, TZVP and EPR-III basis sets, to reproduce experimental nitrogen coupling constant data has been analyzed for 109 neutral, cationic and anionic radicals, all of them containing at least one nitrogen atom. The results indicate that the selection of the basis set plays an important role in the accuracy of DFT calculations of hfccs, mainly in relation with the composition of the primitive functions and the quantum number of those functions. The main conclusion obtained is the high reliability of the scheme B3LYP/6-31G* for the prediction of nitrogen hfccs with very low computational cost.