PHOTOREDUCTION OF CARBONYLS WITH HYDROGEN SELENIDE. AN ESTIMATION OF THE HIGH HYDROGEN DONATING ABILITY OF HYDROGEN SELENIDE BY KINETIC STUDY AND CHEMICAL TRAPPING

Article abstract of DOI:10.1246/cl.1980.1629

The rate constant for the photoreduction of acetophenone with hydrogen selenide in tetrahydrofuran was obtained as 4.7E8 M^-1s^-1.It was also found that hydrogen selenide was able to trap short-lived excited carbonyls, and acyl or alkyl radicals generated in Norrish type I reaction.