The EFG Asymmetry Parameters at 35 Cl Nuclei and the Electronic Effects in Chlorine-Containing Organic and Complex Compounds of Group IVA and VA Elements

Abstract

Abstract The 35 CL NQR method and, in particular, the EFG asymmetry parameters at 35 Cl nuclei were used for the solution of a number of principal problems of theoretical organic and organometallic chemistry, such as the mechanism of non-induction influence of the heteroatom M on the atom Y in the non-linear Y-Z-M or Y-Z = M group, M-Cl bond multiplicity in planar molecular fragments and the asymmetry of halogen atom electron distribution in organic and organometallic molecules. In tetrahedral molecules this distribution is nearly axially symmetric for different M. This symmetry is also characteristic for axial chlorine atoms in trigonal-bipyramidal and octahedral molecules, independently of M. The deviation of the electron distribution of equatorial chlorine atoms from axial symmetry in the two latter cases depends essentially upon M and does not depend much on the peculiarity of the formation of these polyhedra and the character and number of substituents.