To Boldly Look Where No One Has Looked Before: Identifying the Primary Photoproducts of Acetylacetone
To Boldly Look Where No One Has Looked Before: Identifying the Primary Photoproducts of Acetylacetone
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DOI:
10.1021/acs.jpca.9b04640
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发表时间:
2019-07-04
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2.9
通讯作者:
Sheps, Leonid
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作者:
Antonov, Ivan;Voronova, Krisztina;Sheps, Leonid
We investigate the gas-phase photochemistry of the enolone tautomer of acetylacetone (pentane-2,4-dione) following S-2(pi pi*) -> S-0 excitation at lambda = 266 and 248 nm, using three complementary time-resolved spectroscopic methods. Contrary to earlier reports, which claimed to study one-photon excitation of acetylacetone and found OH and CH3 as the only important gas-phase products, we detect 15 unique primary photoproducts and demonstrate that five of them, including OH and CH3, arise solely by multiphoton excitation. We assign the one-photon products to six photochemical channels and show that the most significant pathway is phototautomerization to the diketone form, which is likely an intermediate in several of the other product channels. Furthermore, we measure the equilibrium constant of the tautomerization of the enolone to diketone on S-0 from 320 to 600 K and extract Delta H = 4.1 +/- 0.3 kcal.mol(-1) and Delta S = 6.8 +/- 0.5 cal.mol(-1).K-1 using a vant Hoff analysis. We correct the C-OH bond dissociation energy in acetylacetone, previously determined as 90 kcalmol1 by theory and experiment, to a new value of 121.7 kcal.mol(-1). Our experiments and electronic structure calculations provide evidence that some of the product channels, including phototautomerization, occur on S-0, while others likely occur on excited triplet surfaces. Although the large oscillator strength of the S-2