Electron density distributions in substituted 2,3,4,5-tetraphenyl-1-germacyclopenta-2,4-dienes studied by NMR spectroscopy

The signals in the¹³C NMR spectra of 2,3,4,5-tetraphenyl-1-germacyclopenta-2,4-dienes (R¹=R²=H, Me,cyclo-C₃H₅, SiMe₃, SnMe₃, R¹=Me, R²=H, Cl) were completely assigned using 2D NMR spectroscopy. The pattern of the variation of the chemical shifts in the¹³C NMR spectra indicates that the effects of substituents R¹ and R² on the heterocycle and on the phenyl groups are of inductive rather than mesomeric origin and include the direct through-space polarization of bonds (field effect). Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 11, pp. 1962–1965, November, 1997.