Geometrical Effects on Intramolecular Quenching of Aromatic Ketone (π,π*) Triplets by Remote Phenolic Hydrogen Abstraction
Geometrical Effects on Intramolecular Quenching of Aromatic Ketone (π,π*) Triplets by Remote Phenolic Hydrogen Abstraction
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DOI:
10.1021/ja991207z
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发表时间:
1999-12
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15
通讯作者:
E. C. Lathioor;and William J. Leigh;M. S. Pierre
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作者:
E. C. Lathioor;and William J. Leigh;M. S. Pierre
The photochemistry of a series of alkoxyacetophenone derivatives bearing remote phenolic groups has been studied using laser flash photolysis techniques. The compounds are structured with a p- or m-phenolic moiety attached via a m- or p-oxyethyl linkage to the carbonyl chromophore, and each have a lowest triplet state of π,π* configuration. The corresponding methoxy-substituted compounds have also been examined. The triplet lifetimes of the phenolic ketones vary with the positions of attachment (meta or para) of the oxyethyl spacer to the carbonyl and phenolic moieties, indicating a very strong dependence of the rate of intramolecular H-abstraction on geometric factors. For example, the para,para‘-linked phenolic ketone has a lifetime τT ≈ 12 ns in dry MeCN solution at room temperature due to rapid intramolecular H-abstraction, while the meta,meta‘-derivative exhibits a lifetime τT ≥ 11.5 μs at infinite dilution and no detectable intramolecular reactivity. The presence of as little as 0.03 M water in the ...