A SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC STUDY OF SYSTEMS: SULFOPHTHALEIN DYES-TRIETHYLAMINE IN FOUR NON-AQUEOUS SOLVENTS
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Nesterowicz, Marianna,Korewa, Ryszard
p. 1835 - 1841
(2007/10/02)
Kinetic Analysis of the Intermediate Sultone Formation
A detailed kinetic analysis is presented of the transient sultone (A2) formation which proceeds thermally from a photogenerated intermediate species after flash excitation of bromo thymol blue and bromo xylenol blue in the presence of quinoline, pyridine and 4-methyl pyridine in toluene solution.The sultone ring cleavage is a biomolecular reaction with the base resulting in a hydrogen-bridged molecular complex (A1) which equilibrates consecutively with the most stable rotamer of the ion pair (A3).The rate constants for the latter reaction are controlled essentially by conformational changes rather than by the proper proton transfer.