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Direct observation of carbene and diazo formation from aryldiazirines by ultrafast infrared spectroscopy
Zhang, Yunlong,Burdzinski, Gotard,Kubicki, Jacek,Platz, Matthew S.
, p. 16134 - 16135 (2008)
Ultrafast laser flash photolysis (λex = 270 nm) of phenyldiazirine produces transient infrared absorptions at 2040 and 1582 cm-1. The first band is assigned to phenyldiazomethane, and the second is assigned to singlet phenylcarbene. This assignment is consistent with DFT calculations. Diazo band integration reveals that photoisomerization from diazirine to diazo occurs within a few picoseconds of the laser pulse. The majority of carbene produced is also formed instantaneously. Copyright
Chemiluminescence from arylcarbene oxidation: phenylchlorocarbene and (2-chlorophenyl)carbene
Sander, Wolfram W.
, p. 637 - 646 (2007/10/02)
Chemiluminescence is observed in the thermal reaction of phenylchlorocarbene or (2-chloro-phenyl)carbene and O2, matrix-isolated in Ar.The chemiluminescence spectra closely match the phosphorescence of the corresponding carbonyl compounds.The reactivity of both carbenes towards O2 is very different.Singlet carbene phenylchlorocarbene reacts thermally only slowly with O2 up to 60 K.The oxidation products phenylchloroformate, benzoyl chloride and O(3P) are mainly formed photochemically on irradiation of the diazirine precursor.Triplet carbene (2-chlorophenyl)carbene reacts readily with O2 at cryogenic temperatures to give mostly 2-chlorobenzaldehyde-O-oxide.The carbonyl-O-oxide is photochemically easily cleaved to give 2-chlorobenzaldehyde and O(3P).The reaction step leading to carbonyl compounds in their excited states is in both carbene oxidations the recombination of the free carbene and O(3P).
