Parent Thioketene S-Oxide H2CCSO: Gas-Phase Generation, Structure, and Bonding Analysis

Zhuang Wu, Jian Xu, Liubov Sokolenko, Yurii L. Yagupolskii, Ruijuan Feng, Qian Liu, Yan Lu, Lili Zhao, Israel Fernández, Gernot Frenking, Tarek Trabelsi, Joseph S. Francisco, Xiaoqing Zeng

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Abstract

The parent thioketene S-oxide H2CCSO has been generated in the gas phase through flash vacuum pyrolysis (ca. 1000 K) of vinyl sulfoxide H2CC(Br)−S(O)CF3 via the intermediacy of a novel vinyl sulfinyl radical H2C=C(Br)−SO (syn and anti conformers). Upon irradiation at 266 nm, H2CCSO decomposes into HCCH/SO and H2CS/CO in cryogenic Ar matrix. Whereas, visible-light irradiations result in syn↔anti conformational interconversion in H2C=C(Br)−SO. The molecular structures of H2CCSO and isomers are computationally studied at the CCSD(T)-F12/VTZ-F12 level of theory, and the bonding properties of H2CCSO are analyzed with the EDA-NOCV method at the M06-2X/TZ2P level.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)16566-16573
Number of pages8
JournalChemistry - A European Journal
Volume23
Issue number65
DOIs
StatePublished - 21 Nov 2017

Keywords

  • bonding analysis
  • density functional calculations
  • flash vacuum pyrolysis
  • radicals
  • sulfines

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