OBSERVED AND THEORETICAL DEFORMATION DENSITY STUDIES OF THE AZIRIDINYL, BENZENE, AND PHOSPHAZENE RINGS IN THE CRYSTAL-STRUCTURE OF THE BENZENE SOLVATE OF HEXAAZIRIDINYLCYCLOTRIPHOSPHAZENE
Ts. Cameron et al., OBSERVED AND THEORETICAL DEFORMATION DENSITY STUDIES OF THE AZIRIDINYL, BENZENE, AND PHOSPHAZENE RINGS IN THE CRYSTAL-STRUCTURE OF THE BENZENE SOLVATE OF HEXAAZIRIDINYLCYCLOTRIPHOSPHAZENE, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 116(4), 1994, pp. 1211-1219
The crystal structure and the electron density of the benzene solvate
of hexaaziridinyldyclotriphosphazene have been analyzed using single-c
rystal X-ray diffraction at 200 K with Mo K alpha radiation and an are
a detector to a resolution of sin(theta(max)/lambda = 1.25 Angstrom(-1
); 17 639 measured reflections gave 4596 unique reflections with R, =
0.027. A multipole atomic density model was fitted to 4038 reflections
with I > 3 sigma(I) to give an R(F-2) = 0.039. The dynamic deformatio
n densities of the trapped benzene molecule, the two unique three-memb
ered aziridinyl rings, and the phosphazene ring have all been examined
and are reported here for the first time. Those of the benzene and th
e aziridinyl groups conform to the expected density for these systems.
These observations are used to validate the observations of the dynam
ic deformation density in the phosphazene ring. The observed dynamic d
eformation density in this ring corresponds to the density for the pi/
pi' models with conjugation from a phosphorus atom, through a ring nit
rogen atom to a second phosphorus, but with nodes at each of the phosp
horus atoms. Theoretical dynamic deformation densities, derived from a
b initio calculations and carried out on the simple aziridinyl and pho
sphazene rings, closely resemble the observed deformation densities.