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Anionic substituent control of the electronic structure of aromatic nitrenes.

The electronic structures of phenylnitrenes with anionic π-donating substituents are investigated by using mass spectrometry and electronic structure calculations. Reactions of para-CH(2)(-)-substituted phenylnitrene, formed by dissociative deprotonation of p-azidotoluene, with CS(2) and NO indicate that it has a closed-shell singlet ground state, whereas reactions of p-oxidophenylnitrene formed by dissociative deprotonation of p-azidophenol indicate either a triplet ground state or a singlet with a small singlet-triplet splitting. The ground electronic state assignments based on ion reactivity are consistent with electronic structure calculations. The stability of the closed-shell singlet states in nitrenes is shown by Natural Resonance Theory to be very sensitive to the amount of deprotonated-imine character in the wave function, such that large changes in state energies can be achieved by small modifications of the electronic structure.