title: Reaction of Paramagnetic Synthon, Lithiated 4,4,5,5-Tetramethyl-4,5-dihydro-1H-imidazol-1-oxyl 3-oxide, with Cyclic Aldonitrones of the Imidazole Series.
abstract: It was shown that dipole-stabilized paramagnetic carbanion lithiated 4,4,5,5-tetramethyl-4,5-dihydro-1H-imidazol-1-oxyl 3-oxide can be attached in a nucleophilic manner to either isolated or conjugated aldonitrones of the 2,5-dihydroimidazole 3-oxide and 2H-imidazole 1-oxide series to afford adducts the subsequent oxidation of which leads to polyfunctional mono- and diradicals. According to XRD, at least two polymorphic modifications can be formed during crystallization of the resulting paramagnetic compounds, and for each of them, geometric parameters of the molecules are similar. An EPR spectrum of the diradical in frozen toluene has a complicated lineshape, which can be fairly well reproduced by using X-ray diffraction structural analysis and the following set of parameters: D=14.9 mT, E=1.7 mT; tensor a((14) N)=[0.260 0.260 1.625] mT, two equivalent tensors for the nitronyl nitroxide moiety a((14) N)=[0.198 0.198 0.700] mT, and g≈2.007. According to our DFT and ab initio calculations, the intramolecular exchange in the diradical is very weak and most likely ferromagnetic.
authors.affiliation: International Tomography Center, 3a Institutskaya Str., Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia.
authors.forename: Svyatoslav E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Tolstikov
authors.affiliation: N. N. Vorozhtsov Institute of Organic Chemistry, 9 Ac. Lavrentiev Avenue, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia. tev@tomo.nsc.ru.|Novosibirsk State University, 2 Pirogova Str., Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia. tev@tomo.nsc.ru.
authors.forename: Evgeny V
authors.initials: EV
authors.lastname: Tretyakov
authors.affiliation: Novosibirsk State University, 2 Pirogova Str., Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia.|V. V. Voevodsky Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion, 3 Institutskaya Str., Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia.
authors.forename: Dmitry E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Gorbunov
authors.affiliation: N. N. Vorozhtsov Institute of Organic Chemistry, 9 Ac. Lavrentiev Avenue, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia.|Novosibirsk State University, 2 Pirogova Str., Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia.
authors.forename: Irina F
authors.initials: IF
authors.lastname: Zhurko
authors.affiliation: International Tomography Center, 3a Institutskaya Str., Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia.|Novosibirsk State University, 2 Pirogova Str., Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia.
authors.forename: Matvey V
authors.initials: MV
authors.lastname: Fedin
authors.affiliation: International Tomography Center, 3a Institutskaya Str., Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia.
authors.forename: Galina V
authors.initials: GV
authors.lastname: Romanenko
authors.affiliation: International Tomography Center, 3a Institutskaya Str., Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia.
authors.forename: Artem S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Bogomyakov
authors.affiliation: Novosibirsk State University, 2 Pirogova Str., Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia.|V. V. Voevodsky Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion, 3 Institutskaya Str., Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia.
authors.forename: Nina P
authors.initials: NP
authors.lastname: Gritsan
authors.affiliation: N. N. Vorozhtsov Institute of Organic Chemistry, 9 Ac. Lavrentiev Avenue, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia. dimok@nioch.nsc.ru.|Novosibirsk State University, 2 Pirogova Str., Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia. dimok@nioch.nsc.ru.
authors.forename: Dmitry G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Mazhukin
keywords: EPR spectroscopy; X-ray diffraction; ab initio calculations; density functional calculations; diradicals