ELECTRON EJECTION AND ELECTRON-CAPTURE BY PHENOLIC COMPOUNDS
ELECTRON EJECTION AND ELECTRON-CAPTURE BY PHENOLIC COMPOUNDS
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DOI:
10.1021/j100620a003
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发表时间:
1973-01-01
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通讯作者:
HAYON, E
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作者:
FEITELSON, J;HAYON, E
The flash photolysis of air-free aqueous solutions of p-cresol, p-hydroxyphenylpropionic acid, tyramine, and tyrosine was studied on illumination of their long-wavelength absorption bands. The photodissociation into phenoxyl radicals, solvated electrons, and hydrogen atoms was examined. Experiments in the presence of 2, 4-hexadiene, a typical triplet quencher, showed that the photoelectron ejection of these phenolic compounds in aqueous solution at 25 takes place from a long-lived excited state, probably the triplet excited states of these molecules. The transient absorption spectra, extinction coefficients, and decay kinetics of the phenoxyl radicals were determined. The reactivity of all four substances toward hydrated electrons was studied by pulse radiolysis. The reaction rate constants were found to be dependent on the state of protonation of the hydroxyl and the amino groups. The transient absorption spectra due to the reactionof eaq~ and H atoms (produced by photolysis or radiolysis) with these phenolic com-pounds were observed, with Xmax~ 350 nm. It is shown that eaq~ and H atoms add predominantly to the phenol ring of the compounds examined.When phenolic substances are excited by high-intensity light flashes to their first singletexcited state, phenoxyl radicals and solvated electrons (possibly also hydrogen atoms) are produced. Such photodissociations of phenolic substances have been studied in the steady state1 and by flash photolysis. 2-3 Land and Porter2 have described the phenoxyl radical with its very characteristic sharp absorp-tion band in the vicinity of 400 nm, and Grossweiner, et al., 3 have found that hydrated electrons (Xmax~ 710 nm) are formed simultaneously with the phenoxyl radical. The nature of the excited state (singlet or triplet) precursor of the photoionization of phenolic compounds has not been defined as yet. Furthermore, while excited phenol mole-cules release electrons into aqueous solutions, phenolic substances in their groundstate act as electron scavengers (see below). Thisreactivity with solvated electrons seems to depend to a great extent on the nature of the side chain on the phenol ring.