A Threshold for Charge Transfer in Aromatic Interactions? A Quantitative Study of π-Stacking Interactions

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Abstract

Attractive interactions between substituted arenes in the parallel displaced configuration have been quantitatively studied using triptycene-derived molecular conformational reporters. Charge-transfer bands are observed for models where the interactions are between strong donor and acceptors. Substituent effects on the strength of the aromatic interaction follow opposite trends for strongly electron-deficient arenes and mildly perturbed arenes. The free energy of interactions for models with strong electron donors and acceptors does not follow a linear correlation in the Hammett plot. Electrostatic models alone do not account for the nonlinearity of the free energy−substituents plot.

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