Crystal and molecular structures of trifluoroacrylonitrile, F2C=CF-CN, and trifluorovinyl isocyanide, F2C=CF-NC, by low-temperature X-ray crystallography and ab initio calculations.
The structures of trifluoroacrylonitrile, F2C=CF-CN, monoclinic, P2(1/n) (no. 14), a = 8.595(4), b = 8.748(1), c = 5.421(1) A, beta = 102.83(2) degrees, Z = 4, and its thermally unstable isomer trifluorovinyl isocyanide, F2C=CF-NC, monoclinic, P2(1/n), a = 8.501(2), b = 8.828(2), c = 5.599(2) A, beta = 101.11(2) degrees, Z = 4 were determined by X-ray crystal structure analysis at 113 and 128 K, respectively, from single crystals grown by partial melting and gradient cooling in small glass capillaries. Selected experimental bond lengths of F2C=CF-CN/F2C=CF-NC are as follows: C=C 1.326(1)/1.304(2), C...N 1.158(1)/1.167(2) A. The C-F bond lengths of the CF2 group are significantly shorter than those of the CF(NC) and CF(CN) units, respectively. The vibrational frequencies and molecular geometries of this cyanide/isocyanide pair were also calculated by ab initio methods for comparison with the experimental results, which were found to be in general agreement.
Buschmann
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Institut für Chemie-Anorganische und Analytische Chemie, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
Kleinhenz
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Lentz
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Luger
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Madappat
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Preugschat
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Thrasher
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