EXTINCTION COEFFICIENT AND RECOMBINATION RATE OF BENZYL RADICALS .1. PHOTOLYSIS OF SODIUM PHENYLACETATE
EXTINCTION COEFFICIENT AND RECOMBINATION RATE OF BENZYL RADICALS .1. PHOTOLYSIS OF SODIUM PHENYLACETATE
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DOI:
10.1021/ja00778a008
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发表时间:
1972-01-01
影响因子:
15
通讯作者:
MILLER, SI
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作者:
MEIGGS, TO;GROSSWEI.LI;MILLER, SI
The photolysis of sodium phenylacetate in methanol at 26 gives the following products (): in the ab-sence of oxygen, C6H5CH3 (0.03), C02 (0.031),(CeH5CH2) 2 (0.0007), C> H5CHO (< 0.0001); in the presence of oxy-gen, C6H5CH3 «0.0001), C02 (~ 0.03),(C6H5CH2) 2 «0.0001), C6H5CHO (~ 0.028). It is proposed that the pri-mary process in methanol yields benzyl anion and carbon dioxide, and that the minor path (< 5%) involves benzyl and carboxylate (· COr) radicals. The photolysis of sodium phenylacetate in water yields mostly polymer and carbon dioxide, very little toluene, and some bibenzyl; in flash experiments, transient benzyl radicals and hydrated electrons are detectable; we therefore propose that a photoionization mechanism dominates here. By following the growth and decay of the transients in water, we have been able to compute the extinction coefficient (eB) of the benzyl radical at 2000±500 M-1 cm-1and its recombination rate constant, 2kR= 8 X 109 M-1 sec-1.