- Effect of nitroxide radicals on chemically induced dynamic electron polarization of spin-correlated radical pairs in aqueous micellar solutions of sodium dodecyl sulfate
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The multispin systems consisting of spin-correlated radical pairs (SCRPs) and stable nitroxide radicals, localized in micelles of sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS), were studied by ESR and pulse laser photolysis techniques. In all the systems studied, the stab
- Gorelik,Tarasov,Shakirov,Bagryanskaya
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experimental part
p. 1416 - 1427
(2009/09/30)
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- Bimolecular hydrogen abstraction from phenols by aromatic ketone triplets
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Absolute rate constants for hydrogen abstraction from 4-methylphenol (para-cresol) by the lowest triplet states of 24 aromatic ketones have been determined in acetonitrile solution at 23°C, and the results combined with previously reported data for roughly a dozen other compounds under identical conditions. The ketones studied include various ring-substituted benzophenones and acetophenones, α,α,α-trifluoroacetophenone and its 4-methoxy analog, 2-benzoylthiophene, 2-acetonaphthone, and various other polycyclic aromatic ketones such as fluorenone, xanthone and thioxanthone, and encompass n,π*, π,π*(CT) and arenoid π,π* lowest triplets with (triplet) reduction potentials (Ered*) varying from about -10 to -38 kcal mol-1. The 4-methylphenoxyl radical is observed as the product of triplet quenching in almost every case, along with the corresponding hemipinacol radical in most instances. Hammett plots for the acetophenones and benzophenones are quite different, but plots of log log kQ vs Ered* reveal a common behavior for most of the compounds studied. The results are consistent with reaction via two mechanisms: a simple electron-transfer mechanism, which applies to the n,π* triplet ketones and those π,π* triplets that possess particularly low reduction potentials, and a coupled electron-/proton-transfer mechanism involving the intermediacy of a hydrogen-bonded exciplex, which applies to the π,π* ketone triplets. Ketones with lowest charge-transfer π,π* states exhibit rate constants that vary only slightly with triplet reduction potential over the full range investigated; this is due to the compensating effect of substituents on triplet state basicity and reduction potential, which both play a role in quenching by the hydrogen-bonded exciplex mechanism. Ketones with arenoid π,π* states exhibit the fall-off in rate constant that is typical of photoinduced electron transfer reactions, but it occurs at a much higher potential than would be normally expected due to the effects of hydrogen-bonding on the rate of electron-transfer within the exciplex.
- Lathioor, Edward C.,Leigh, William J.
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p. 291 - 300
(2008/02/05)
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- Reaction pathways involved in the quenching of the photoactivated aromatic ketones xanthone and 1-azaxanthone by polyalkylbenzenes
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The reactions of the photoexcited aromatic ketones, xanthone and 1-azaxanthone, with polyalkylbenzene donors yields the corresponding ketyl radicals as detected by nanosecond laser flash photolysis. On the basis of formation of these photoreduced products, the quenching of the photoexcited species is expected to occur either by a one-step hydrogen abstraction from the donor, electron transfer followed by proton transfer from the donor, or by formation of a charge-transfer type encounter complex prior to hydrogen atom transfer. The reactions of triplet xanthone and triplet 1-azaxanthone with polyalkylbenzene donors in acetonitrile were investigated to probe the effect of the nature of the triplet state and the redox properties on the relative importance of each quenching pathway. Determination of bimolecular rate constants, as well as analysis of kinetic isotope effects and ketyl radical yields, suggests that for both xanthone and 1-azaxanthone the quenching process is dominated by formation of charge-transfer encounter complexes between excited-state aromatic ketone acceptor and ground-state polyalkylbenzene donor. The reactivites of the xanthone π,π* triplet and 1-azaxanthone n,π* triplet toward these donors is shown to be governed by their reduction potentials, with their electronic configuration being unimportant to the kinetics of encounter complex formation. The only exception to this is found when sterically encumbered polyalkylbenzene donors are employed. Results with these compounds suggest that π,π* and n,π* states form encounter complexes of different structure which affects their ability to react with hindered donors. Additionally, product yields with all of the donors are controlled by both the extent of charge transfer within encounter complexes and the encounter complex structure.
- Coenjarts,Scaiano
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p. 3635 - 3641
(2007/10/03)
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