M. Eckertmaksic et al., PHOTOELECTRON-SPECTRA AND CONFORMATIONAL BEHAVIOR OF 3-ISOPROPENYLCYCLOPROPENE DERIVATIVES, Croatica chemica acta, 69(4), 1996, pp. 1521-1536
The electronic and molecular structure of a series of 1,2-dialkyl (1-3
) and 1,2-diphenyl-3-isopropenylcyclopropene (4) have been investigate
d by means of He(I) photoelectron spectroscopy and ab initio MO calcul
ations. The changes in the lowest energy ionization along the series a
re interpreted in terms of conformotionally dependent conjugative inte
raction between the isopropenyl group and cyclopropenyl ring.