ABSOLUTE RATE CONSTANTS FOR HYDROGEN ABSTRACTION FROM ALDEHYDES AND CONFORMATIONAL STUDIES OF THE CORRESPONDING AROMATIC ACYL RADICALS
ABSOLUTE RATE CONSTANTS FOR HYDROGEN ABSTRACTION FROM ALDEHYDES AND CONFORMATIONAL STUDIES OF THE CORRESPONDING AROMATIC ACYL RADICALS
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DOI:
10.1021/ja00330a036
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发表时间:
1984-01-01
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15
通讯作者:
PLACUCCI, G
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CHATGILIALOGLU, C;LUNAZZI, L;PLACUCCI, G
Absolute rate constants for the reactions of rert-butoxyl radicals with some organic aldehydes havebeen measured in solution by using laser flash photolysis techniques. At 297 K, therate constants are 8.9, 6.8, 1.0, and 0.05 X 107 M-1 s-1 for EtCHO, C6H5CHO, Me2NCHO, and EtOCHO, respectively. Arrhenius parameters were determined for benzaldehyde. Polar effects are very important in determining the reactivity of organic aldehydes toward tert-butoxyl radicals. The EPR spectra are described for a number of furoyl, thenoyl, and pyrroyl radicals (ArCO) which were generated photolytically over a wide range of temperatures. Conformational isomers were detected and their structural assignment obtained from the magnitude of the hyperfme splittings of the ring protons, by comparison with the conformers of the parent aldehydes, and from thesolvent dependence.Aldehydes are known to react with a variety of free radicals to form acyl radicals. Although these are important intermediates in many chemical reactions, absolute rate data regarding their formation from aldehydes byalkoxyl radicals are extremely lim-ited. In fact, absolute rate data are restricted to a single gas-phase study of H-atom abstraction by the rm-butoxyl radical from formaldehyde and acetaldehyde. 1 2 In the present work we report a kinetic study of the formation of acyl radicals by the reaction of rert-butoxyl radicals with a variety of organicaldehydes in solution, as well as the rates of decay of some acyl radicals, by laser flash photolysis and kinetic EPR spectroscopy, respectively. The acyl radicals generated by this procedure havebeen ex-tensively studied in the past by means of EPRspectroscopy, in order to elucidate their structure and conformation. 3-7 Davies and Sutcliffe7 recently found that the conformational behavior of aliphatic acyl radicals parallels thatof the parent aldehydes; they also showed that there is restricted motion around the C-CO bond in some of these radicals. Similarly, the benzoyl radical was shown to experience a restricted rotation around the same bond below 150 K, 3 4with a relatively low barrier compared to that of the parent molecule. 8 However, in the present workfurther studies