Abstract
Photolysis of 2- and 4-cyanophenyl azides in solid N 2 matrices at 12–20 K yielded anisotropic samples with linearly dichroic infrared spectra. An attempt was made to use the observed dichrosim, largely qualitatively, to correlate the directions of CN bonds with other bond directions in the molecules, thus developing a method of conformational analysis for matrix-isolated molecules. By this means, improved estimates for the directions of the transition moments of the azide stretches and the photo-active electronic absorptions were derived, and 2-cyanophenyl azide was shown, with a high degree of probability, to exist mainly as the anti conformer. Overlap of product and starting material v(CN) bands, however, proved to be a serious disadvantage of this approach.
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