Based on the structure of the neutral diboranyl (13,H5) radical, which was proposed from the analysis of E.S.R. spectra, the dipolar coupling tensors of the boron, the bridging hydrogen and the terminal hydrogens in this radical have been calculated by means of the analytical formulae for the dipolar integrals used by Barfield and others. The calculated dipolar tensors were found to be in good agreement with the experimental results. The calculations confirm the configuration proposed by Hasegawa and Sohma for the t~2H5 radical.
INTRODUCTIONIn a previous work [1] y-irradiated powder and single crystals of diborane (B2H6) have been investigated by E.S.R. at 77 K. The generated radicals, which are located in two different sites depending on the crystal structure [2], were identified as neutral t}~H 5. By comparison between powder and single crystal spectra it was possible to determine the total hyperfine coupling tensors for the bridging hydrogen and the boron nuclei. The coupling for the terminal hydrogens was small and therefore only observable in special directions of the external magnetic field vector. Both from the relation between the theoretical values calculated by the I ND O-approximation method [3 ] and the experimentally obtained ones for the isotropic couplings of the bridging hydrogen and the boron nuclei and from the experimentally obtained directions of the principal axes corresponding to the largest value of the hyperfine coupling for the boron nuclei, Hasegawa and Sohma proposed a model (figure 1) for the generated ]}~H 5 radical. They found that the angle O, which is defined in figure 1, was about 100 ~ and the experimentally determined value of the angle % which also is defined in the same figure, had the value between 71 ~ and 74 ~ . We report here a more detailed theoretical investigation of this radical, in which both the isotropic and the anisotropic coupling are calculated in order to find the configuration which gives the best fit to the experimental results.