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Time-resolved infrared spectral studies of photochemically induced oxidative addition of benzene to trans-RhCl(CO) (PMe3)2
Bridgewater, Jon S.,Lee, Brian,Bernhard, Stefan,Schoonover, Jon R.,Ford, Peter C.
, p. 5592 - 5594 (1997)
Time-resolved infrared and time-resolved optical spectroscopy were used to examine the pathway-(s) by which 355 nm photolysis of the rhodium(I) species trans-RhCl(CO)(PMe3)2 (1) in benzene leads to the C-H oxidative-addition product (Ph)(H)RhCl(CO)(PMe3)2 (2). Two reaction pathways to the formation of 2 were found. One of these was the prompt formation (a direct reaction of the electronic excited state of the four-coordinate species 1 with the C6H6 solvent. The second route was more a convoluted stepwise process, involving CO photodissociation to give the incoordinate intermediate RhCl-(PMe3)2 followed by benzene oxidative addition then CO addition to give 2.
