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The facile generation of a tetramethyleneethane type radical cation and biradical utilizing a 3,4-di(α-styryl)furan and a photoinduced ET and back ET sequence
Ikeda, Teruyo,Ikeda, Hiroshi,Takahashi, Yasutake,Yamada, Masafumi,Mizuno, Kazuhiko,Tero-Kubota, Shozo,Yamauchi, Seigo
, p. 2466 - 2472 (2008/09/18)
Product analyses and nanosecond time-resolved spectroscopy on laser flash photolysis were studied for the photoinduced electron-transfer reaction of 3,4-di(α-styryl)furan (6a). A combination of these results, kinetic, density functional theoretical (DFT), and time-dependent DFT analyses enabled assignment of the absorption to the tetramethyleneethane (TME)-type radical cation (7a?+, λmax = 392 nm) and the corresponding singlet biradical (17a??, λmax = 661 nm). These two intermediates were mechanistically linked to each other with a facile back electron-transfer reaction. The present studies provide a new method for the generation of aryl-substituted TME-type intermediates.