IDENTIFICATION OF BOTH PREEQUILIBRIUM AND DIFFUSION LIMITS FOR REACTION OF SINGLET OXYGEN, O-2(1-DELTA-G), WITH BOTH PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL QUENCHERS - VARIABLE-TEMPERATURE, TIME-RESOLVED INFRARED LUMINESCENCE STUDIES
IDENTIFICATION OF BOTH PREEQUILIBRIUM AND DIFFUSION LIMITS FOR REACTION OF SINGLET OXYGEN, O-2(1-DELTA-G), WITH BOTH PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL QUENCHERS - VARIABLE-TEMPERATURE, TIME-RESOLVED INFRARED LUMINESCENCE STUDIES
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DOI:
10.1021/ja00232a016
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发表时间:
1988-11-23
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15
通讯作者:
STANDEN, MC
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作者:
GORMAN, AA;HAMBLETT, I;STANDEN, MC
The deactivation of singlet oxygen, O2 (1.DELTA.g), by the quenchers .beta.-carotene (.beta.-C), strychnine (S), and 1,3-diphenylisobenzofuran (DPBF) has been examined over the temperature range -90% to +90.degree. C in toluene using time-resolved infrared luminescence spectroscopy. The aim of these experiments, to demonstrate that reactions of both physical and chemical quenchers proceed via the intermediacy of a reversibly formed O2 (1.DELTA.g)/ quencher exciplex, has been achieved. The activation energy for diffusion-controlled reactions involving O2 (1.DELTA.g) in toluene has been defined for the first time by demonstrating that, at low temperature, quenchings via three different mechanisms (electronic energy transfer, charge-transfer induced intersystem crossing, and cycloaddition to give endoperoxide) exhibit essentially identical Arrhenius slopes of 1.6-1.7 kcal mol-1. At high temperature all three reactions deviate from the diffusion limit and in each case of second linear region is observed. Whereas the activation enthalpy corresponding to the high-temperature slope for .beta.-C is positive (0.4 kcal mol-1), those for S and DPBF are clearly negative. These results provide compelling evidence that the balance between physical and chemical quenching in organic and biological systems is a function of competition between exciplex photophysics and exciplex photochemistry. These data have led to the conclusion that in no cases of quenching hitherto examined in terms of activation parameters, e.g., those of simple alkenes, enol ethers, indoles, and cyclic dienes, can exciplex formation be rate-limiting. Control experiments with 2,3-dimethylbut-2-ene (DMB) and its perdeuterio analogue (DMB-2H12) are in agreement with this conclusion.