Differing substituent effects on rates and regioselectivities in the di-π-methane rearrangement. New photochemical theory: excitation distribution (the ΔP matrix), reaction inhibition by vertical excited state stabilisation, ground Vs. excited state control

Author(s):  
Howard E. Zimmerman ◽  
William T. Gruenbaum ◽  
Robert T. Klun ◽  
Mark G. Steinmetz ◽  
Thomas R. Welter
2011 ◽  
Vol 412 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele Vendruscolo

1987 ◽  
Vol 65 (7) ◽  
pp. 1599-1607 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Foster ◽  
B. Gaillard ◽  
N. Mathur ◽  
A. L. Pincock ◽  
J. A. Pincock ◽  
...  

Singlet excited state rate constants have been measured for both the heterolytic and homolytic photocleavage of 3- and 4-methoxy and 3- and 4-cyano (1-naphthylmethyl)trimethylammonium chlorides, 6–10. The results are interpreted in terms of the meta effect or changes in charge distribution upon excitation and the competition between bond cleavage, electron transfer, and hydrogen atom transfer in the contact pairs resulting from the two types of cleavage.


2003 ◽  
Vol 81 (10) ◽  
pp. 1083-1095 ◽  
Author(s):  
J A Pincock ◽  
I S Young

The photochemistry of the indenyl acetates 1 and pivalates 2, substituted with X = H, 5-CH3O, and 6-CH3O, have been examined in both methanol and cyclohexane. The precursor alcohols 3 were also found to be photoreactive. Although only radical-derived products were obtained in cyclohexane, both ion- and radical-derived products were formed in methanol. The absence of significant fluorescence emission from any of the substrates 1, 2, and 3 indicates that the excited singlet states are highly reactive. A mechanism is proposed for the ion-derived products that proceeds through direct heterolytic cleavage to give an indenyl cation – carboxylate anion pair. The indenyl cations generated are anti-aromatic in the ground state and their efficient generation by this photochemical solvolysis is in sharp contrast to the very low reactivity of related ground-state substrates. For the pivalate esters 2, an excited-state migratory decarboxylation is proposed for the formation of tert-butyl derived products.Key words: ester photochemistry, indenyl cations, indenyl radicals.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophya Alamudun ◽  
Kyle Tanovitz ◽  
April Fajardo ◽  
Kaitlind Johnson ◽  
Andy Pham ◽  
...  

<p>Photobases are compounds which become strong bases after electronic excitaton into a charge-transfer excited state. Recent experimental studies have highlighted the photobasicity of the 5-R quinoline compounds, demonstrating a strong substituent dependence to the pK<sub>a</sub><sup>*</sup>. Here we describe our systematic study of how the photobasicity of four families of nitrogen-containing heterocyclic aromatics are tuned through substituents. We show that substituent position and identity both significantly impact the pK<sub>a</sub><sup>*</sup>. We demonstrate that the substituent effects are additive and identify many disubstituted compounds with substantially greater photobasicity than the most photobasic 5-R quinoline compound identified previously. We show that the addition of a second fused benzene ring to quinoline, along with two electron-donating substituents, lowers the vertical excitation energy into the visible while still maintaining a pK<sub>a</sub><sup>*</sup> > 14. Overall, the structure-function relationships developed in this study provide new insights to guide the development of new photocatalysts that employ photobasicity. </p>


1987 ◽  
Vol 52 (14) ◽  
pp. 3143-3150 ◽  
Author(s):  
William H. Richardson ◽  
Diana L. Stiggal-Estberg ◽  
Zhangping Chen ◽  
John C. Baker ◽  
David M. Burns ◽  
...  

1972 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 670-677 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Benezra ◽  
Maurice Bursey

Abstract Simplified quasi-equilibrium calculations performed on the mass spectra of dihalosubstituted phenyl acetates and acetanilides again uncover the same substituent effects on the rise of K with E for the loss of ketene from phenyl acetates as was determined for the monosubstituted phenyl acetates. However, a new effect is found for the disubstituted acetanilides, removal of excitation probability for low-lying energy states of the molecular ion. This effect parallels the removal of transition probability for the lowest excited state of the neutral molecule.


ChemInform ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 18 (51) ◽  
Author(s):  
W. H. RICHARDSON ◽  
D. L. STIGGAL-ESTBERG ◽  
Z. CHEN ◽  
J. C. BAKER ◽  
D. M. BURNS ◽  
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