Photochemical Reactions of Aryl-Substituted Digermanes through a Pair of Organogermyl Radicals

Article abstract of DOI:10.1246/bcsj.64.1889

The photochemical reactions of aryl-substituted digermanes were investigated by trapping experiments and a laser flash photolysis technique.The photolysis of phenylated digermanes resulted in germanium-germanium bond homolysis to give a pair of two germyl radicals.The germyl radicals abstracted a chlorine atom from carbon tetrachloride to give chlorogermanes.The pair of germyl radicals also underwent ipso-substitution, which was a precursor of the germylenes.The mechanism for the photochemistry of phenylated digermenes is discussed.