ELECTRON-TRANSFER MECHANISMS IN PHOTOCHEMICAL-TRANSFORMATIONS OF IMINIUM SALTS
ELECTRON-TRANSFER MECHANISMS IN PHOTOCHEMICAL-TRANSFORMATIONS OF IMINIUM SALTS
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DOI:
10.1021/ar00088a003
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发表时间:
1983-01-01
影响因子:
18.3
通讯作者:
MARIANO, PS
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作者:
MARIANO, PS
Studies in the area of organic photochemistry have focused on two interrelated aspects of excited-state chemistry. Investigations of photophysical phenomena have probed the mechanisms for excited-state deacti-vation by emission, radiationless decay, and energy transfer. The chemical reactivity of organic excited states has been explored with the intent of uncovering new reaction processes, detailing their mechanisms and illucidating thefactors that controlreaction efficiencies and selectivities manifestedin regiochemistry and stereochemistry. In a number of cases, the reactions uncovered possess the proper characteristics to be ap-plicable as synthetic methods. These investigations have concentrated mainly on classical photochemical processes exemplified by ketone hydrogen atom ab-stractions, olefin cis-trans isomerizations or cyclo-additions, conjugated ketone rearrangements, arene photoisomerizations, and polyene electrocyclizations. In recent years interest has grown in a new area of photochemistry involving excited-state electron transfer. Exploratory and mechanisitic studies in this area have uncovered novel pathways for excited-state quenching, photosensitization, and reaction initiated by single electron transfer (SET) from or to excited states of organic systems. Many of the photochemical trans-formations proceeding by SET mechanisms appear to be particularly suited to synthetic practice. The aim of this Account is to briefly outline the general features of SET in excited-state chemistry and to review the results of our recent photochemical studies of systems containing the iminium cation grouping. 1 The concepts that serve as the foundation for an understanding of excited-state SET have their origins in early investigations of excited-state complex forma-tion. The body of data accumulated on this subject suggests that a wide variety of excited-state processes occur via the interventionof complexes formed by en-counter of excited-state molecules with ground-state species of the same (forming homodimers or excimers) or different (forming heterodimers or exciplexes) iden-tity. 2 The stabilities of the complexes relative to precursor excited states were initially attributed to exciton resonance interactions involving delocalization of excitation over both components. 3 It is now clear that charge transfer serves as another important com-ponent of excited-state complex stabilization. 4 This postulate is substantiated by observations that demonstrate that the wavelength maxima for emission from, Patrick S. Mariano was born in 1942 In Passaic, NJ. He received his BS in Chemistry at Falrlelgh Dickinson University and his Ph. D. from the Univer-sity of Wisconsin. Following 2 years of postdoctoral work at Yale University, he joined in 1970 the faculty at Texas A&M University, and in 1979 he moved to the University of Maryland, where he Is presently Professor of Chemistry. His research Interests are the development of new synthetic methodolgy and natural product synthesis. He was Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awardee, 1975-1980.