Stereoselective O2-induced photoisomerization of all-trans-1,6-diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene

2003 ◽  
Vol 81 (6) ◽  
pp. 673-679 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Saltiel ◽  
Govindarajan Krishnamoorthy ◽  
Zhennian Huang ◽  
Dong-Hoon Ko ◽  
Shujun Wang

Irradiation of all-trans-1,6-diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene (ttt-DPH) in degassed acetonitrile (AN) gives ctt- and tct-DPH, relatively inefficiently, mainly via isomerization in the singlet excited state. The triplet contribution to the photoisomerization is small due to a very low intersystem crossing yield (ϕis = 0.01). Central bond isomerization is quenched in the presence of air by a factor of 1.4, consistent with the expected quenching of the lowest singlet and triplet excited states by oxygen. However, the presence of air enhances terminal bond photoisomerization by nearly twofold. Triplet-sensitized ttt-DPH photoisomerization favors tct-DPH formation and is quenched by oxygen. It follows that the interaction of singlet-excited ttt-DPH with O2 suppresses isomerization to tct-DPH but opens a new isomerization pathway to ctt-DPH. The presence of dimethylfuran, a singlet O2 trap, has no effect on the photoisomerization, eliminating the possible involvement of singlet O2 in this new reaction. ttt-DPH radical cations are ruled out as intermediates because the presence of fumaronitrile, which leads to their formation, suppresses both central and terminal bond photoisomerizations. In contrast to acetonitrile, ctt-DPH formation is quenched by oxygen in methylcyclohexane, suggesting the requirement of a polar environment. Strikingly different deuterium isotope effects distinguish the direct and O2-induced photoisomerization pathways. A comparative study of ttt-DPH-d0 with ttt-DPH-d2 and ttt-DPH-d4, involving deuteration of one and both terminal double bonds, reveals an inverse kinetic isotope effect (kHox/kDox = 0.92) for the O2-induced reaction. An attractive mechanism for the new oxygen-induced photoisomerization involves charge transfer from the S1 state of ttt-DPH to oxygen followed by collapse of the exciplex to either a zwitterionic or a biradicaloid species through bonding at one of the benzylic positions. Rotation about the new single bond in this intermediate followed by reversion to DPH and O2 gives the observed result. Key words: diphenylhexatrienes, trans-cis photoisomerization, oxygen sensitization.

1975 ◽  
Vol 53 (20) ◽  
pp. 3069-3074 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Bron

The corrections to rate constants for an harmonicity of vibrational excited states have been evaluated over the temperature range of 200–1100 K. The reaction O2 + X, where X is H or D, has been chosen as the model system. Only the influence of vibrational anharmonicity of the triatomic transition state has been determined. Two geometric shapes for the transition state, bent and isosceles configurations, have been investigated in detail by the bond order method.It is found that the correction can be large, depending upon the geometry and force field of the transition state and the temperature. The magnitude of the correction for anharmonicity of the vibrational excited states depends mainly, at a particular temperature, on the strength of the O—X bond in the transition state. In the case of a large correction, anharmonicity may lead to a nonlinear Arrhenius plot.Because of cancellation effects, the correction for anharmonicity of the excited vibrational states in kinetic isotope effects can be ignored in the lower temperature region. It has also been found that anharmonicity of the vibrational groundstate can explain unexpected large isotope effects.


1960 ◽  
Vol 38 (11) ◽  
pp. 2171-2177 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. T. Leffek ◽  
J. A. Llewellyn ◽  
R. E. Robertson

The secondary β-deuterium isotope effects have been measured in the water solvolytic reaction of alkyl halides and sulphonates for primary, secondary, and tertiary species. In every case the kinetic isotope effect was greater than unity (kH/kD > 1). This isotope effect may be associated with varying degrees of hyperconjugation or altered non-bonding intramolecular forces. The experiments make it difficult to decide which effect is most important.


1980 ◽  
Vol 58 (16) ◽  
pp. 1738-1750 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Henry Werstiuk ◽  
George Timmins ◽  
Frank Peter Cappelli

A series of specifically deuterated syn-7-chloro-, anti-7-chloro-, syn-7-bromo-, and anti-7-bromo-exo-2-norbornyl brosylates have been prepared and solvolyzed in NaOAc-buffered 80:20 EtOH–H2O. For solvolysis at 25 °C the γ-kinetic isotope effects (KIE's) for syn-7-chloro-exo-2-norbornyl brosylate-endo-6-d (1e), anti-7-chloro-exo-2-norbornyl brosylate-endo-6-d (2c), syn-7-bromo-exo-2-norbornyl brosylate-endo-6-d (1f), anti-7-bromo-exo-2-norbornyl brosylate-endo-6-d (2d), syn-7-chloro-exo-2-norbornyl brosylate-exo,exo-5,6-d2 (1g), anti-7-chloro-exo-2-norbornyl brosylate-exo,exo-5,6-d2 (2e) are 1.125 ± 0.007, 1.128 ± 0.005, 1.063 ± 0.008, 1.149 ± 0.020, 1.119 ± 0.011, and 1.115 ± 0.013, respectively. There is no detectable γ-kinetic isotope effect for solvolysis of anti-7-chloro-endo-2-norbornyl brosylate-endo-6-d(3a) and the β-KIE for anti-7-chloro-exo-2-norbornyl brosylate-exo-3-d(4a) is 1.111 ± 0.011. From a consideration of the possible sources of the unusually large secondary KIE's, we conclude that the exo-6-d and endo-6-d γ-KIE's likely are derived from a combination of effects rather than from participation of the C1—C6 bond in the ionization step.


1974 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 493-496 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Potzinger ◽  
Louis C. Glasgow ◽  
Bruno Reimann

The Reaction of Hydrogen Atoms with Silane; Arrhenius Parameters and Kinetic Isotope Effect Relative rate constants were measured for the systems H + C2H4/SiD4 and D + C2D4/SiH4 over a wide temperature range. From the known arrheniusparameter for the reaction H + C2H4 the activation energy EA and the preexponential factor A of the abstraction reactionH + SiD4 → HD + SiD3may be calculated. Values of EA = 3.2 kcal/Mol and A = 4.92 • 1013 cm3 Mol-1 sec-1 were obtained. Upper limits for the kinetic isotope effects are given in the paper


2015 ◽  
Vol 93 (4) ◽  
pp. 463-467 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jefferson Chan ◽  
Ariel Tang ◽  
Andrew J. Bennet

The transition state for the hydronium-ion-promoted hydrolysis of α-d-glucopyranosyl fluoride in water has been characterized by combining multiple kinetic isotope effect measurements with theoretical modelling. The measured kinetic isotope effects for the C1-deuterium, C2-deuterium, C5-deuterium, anomeric carbon-13, and ring oxygen-18 are 1.219 ± 0.021, 1.099 ± 0.024, 0.976 ± 0.014, 1.014 ± 0.005, and 0.991 ± 0.013, respectively. The transition state for the hydronium ion reaction is late with respect to both C–F bond cleavage and proton transfer.


1985 ◽  
Vol 63 (8) ◽  
pp. 2237-2240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan K. Colter ◽  
A. Gregg Parsons ◽  
Karen Foohey

The kinetics of oxidation of 10-methyl-9-phenylacridan (1(H)) and 9-deuterio-10-methyl-9-phenylacridan (1(D)) to 10-methyl-9-phenylacridinium ion (3) by eight oxidants have been investigated. The oxidants included the π-acceptors 1,4-benzoquinone (BQ), 7,7,8,8-tetracyanoquinodimethane (TCNQ), p-bromanil (BA), p-chloranil (CA), tetracyanoethylene (TCNE), 2,3-dicyano-1,4-benzoquinone (DCBQ) and 2,3-dichloro-5,6-dicyano-1,4-benzoquinone (DDQ) in acetonitrile (AN), BQ in 50:50 (v/v) AN-water, and the one-electron oxidant tris(2,2′-bipyridyl)cobalt(III), [Formula: see text] in AN. The seven π acceptors cover a 109-fold range of reactivity from BQ to DDQ and the deuterium kinetic isotope effect varies from 11.9 (BQ in AN) to 5.8 (DDQ). For π acceptors (BQ, TCNQ, CA, TCNE, and DCBQ) previously investigated with 10-methylacridan (NMA), 1(H) is less reactive than NMA by factors ranging from 9.1 (BQ) to 1.7 × 102 (TCNE). The isotope effects and relative reactivities for the π acceptor oxidations are most simply explained by a one-step hydride transfer mechanism.


2022 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerd Gleixner

We determined the kinetic isotope effect on the serine hydroxymethyltransferase reaction (SHMT), which provides important C1 metabolites that are essential for the biosynthesis of DNA bases, O-methyl groups of lignin and methane. An isotope effect on the SHMT reaction was suggested being responsible for the well-known isotopic depletion of methane. Using the cytosolic SHMT from pig liver, we measured the natural carbon isotope ratios of both atoms involved in the bond splitting by chemical degradation of the remaining serine before and after partial turnover. The kinetic isotope effect 13(VMax/Km) was 0.994 0.006 and 0.995 0.007 on position C-3 and C-2, respectively. The results indicated that the SHMT reaction does not contribute to the 13C depletion observed for methyl groups in natural products and methane. However, from the isotopic pattern of caffeine, isotope effects on the methionine synthetase reaction and on reactions forming Grignard compounds, the involved formation and fission of metal organic bonds are likely responsible for the observed general depletion of “activated” methyl groups. As metal organic bond formations in methyl transferases are also rate limiting in the formation of methane, they may likely be the origin of the known 13C depletion in methane.


1966 ◽  
Vol 44 (6) ◽  
pp. 689-694 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Salomon

Calculations are presented for the equilibrium tritium isotope effect involving water, hydronium ion, and hydroxide ion. The results are used to predict the kinetic isotope effect in the transfer of protons to a mercury cathode.


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