Kinetic study of the reactions of methoxy-substituted phenacyl radicals

1995 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.V. Jovanovic ◽  
J. Renaud ◽  
A.B. Berinstain ◽  
J.C. Scaiano
Keyword(s):  
Rate Constant ◽  
Flash Photolysis ◽  
Laser Flash Photolysis ◽  
Chemical Reactivity ◽  
Laser Flash ◽  
Carbonyl Oxygen ◽  
Peroxyl Radicals ◽  
Quantum Yields ◽  
Triplet States ◽  
Singlet States

The photochemistry of various mono- and dimethoxy-substituted α-bromoacetophenones has been investigated by laser flash photolysis in organic solvents. The short-lived excited singlet states cleave to yield bromine atoms and the corresponding methoxyphenacyl radicals with quantum yields ranging from 0.13 to 0.35. With the exception of 4-methoxy-α-bromoacetophenone (6), all other substrates yield readily detectable triplet states; these have π,π* character and are very poor hydrogen abstractors. Triplet decay does not contribute to methoxyphenacyl radical formation. While methoxyphenacyl radicals may have a spin density as high as 0.3 at the carbonyl oxygen, which accounts for the alkoxy-like visible band in their absorption spectrum, their chemical reactivity is dominated by the radical character at the carbon site. Methoxyphenacyl radicals are modest hydrogen abstractors; for example, reaction of 6 with 1,4-cyclohexadiene occurs with a rate constant of 2.6 × 105 M−1 s−1, while for addition to the double bond in 1,1-diphenylethylene the rate constant is 9.4 × 107 M−1 s−1. Additions to other double bonds are likely to be slower (e.g., 12 + 1,3-cyclohexadiene, k ≤ 105 M−1 s−1). In contrast, reaction with oxygen occurs with kq = 2.5 × 109 M−1 s−1. Under the conditions relevant for their participation in paper yellowing, the methoxyphenacyl radicals will be converted to peroxyl radicals. These probably play a key role in the oxidative photodegradation of lignin. Keywords: methoxyphenacyl radicals, α-bromoacetophenones, laser flash photolysis.

Properties of singlet- and triplet-excited states of hemicyanine dyes

2014 ◽  
Vol 68 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Mártire ◽  
Walter Massad ◽  
Hernán Montejano ◽  
Mónica Gonzalez ◽  
Paula Caregnato ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Flash Photolysis ◽  
Laser Flash Photolysis ◽  
Fluorescence Emission ◽  
Emission Spectra ◽  
Laser Flash ◽  
Quantum Yields ◽  
Triplet States ◽  
Fluorescence Emission Spectra ◽  
Fluorescence Quantum Yields ◽  
Hemicyanine Dyes

AbstractThe fluorescence emission spectra and fluorescence quantum yields of hemicyanine dyes LDS 698, LDS 722, and LDS 730 were measured in different media. No transient species was detected in the laser flash-photolysis experiments performed with Ar-saturated solutions of the dyes in methanol. However, in the presence of 0.08 M potassium iodide, the absorption of the triplet states was clearly observed. Oxygen consumption measurements in the absence and presence of a chemical trap (furfuryl alcohol) in MeOH: H2O (φ r = 1: 1) solutions of the dyes containing KI confirmed the generation of singlet molecular oxygen.

A reinvestigation of the interaction between triplet states of cyclohexenones and amines

1988 ◽  
Vol 66 (10) ◽  
pp. 2595-2600 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Weir ◽  
J. C. Scaiano ◽  
D. I. Schuster
Keyword(s):  
Triplet State ◽  
Rate Constant ◽  
Flash Photolysis ◽  
Laser Flash Photolysis ◽  
Radical Cations ◽  
Laser Flash ◽  
Triplet States ◽  
New Evidence

Laser flash photolysis studies lead to the conclusion that the short-lived triplet states of cyclohexenones are readily quenched by amines. For example, in the case of 2-cyclohexen-1-one (1) its triplet state (τT = 40 ns in acetonitrile) is quenched by triethylamine with a rate constant of (9.0 ± 0.8) × 107 M−1 s−1. Cyclohexenone triplets are also quenched efficiently by DABCO and by triphenylamine leading to the formation of the corresponding amine radical cations. The new evidence reported rules out the involvement of long-lived detectable exciplexes.

scholarly journals Arylisoquinoline-derived organoboron dyes with a triaryl skeleton show dual fluorescence

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 2612-2622
Author(s):  
Vânia F Pais ◽  
Tristan Neumann ◽  
Ignacio Vayá ◽  
M Consuelo Jiménez ◽  
Abel Ros ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emission Band ◽  
Flash Photolysis ◽  
Laser Flash Photolysis ◽  
Laser Flash ◽  
Quantum Yields ◽  
Triplet States ◽  
Dual Emission ◽  
Long Wavelength ◽  
Fluorescence Quantum Yields ◽  
Wavelength Emission

Four new dyes that derive from borylated arylisoquinolines were prepared, containing a third aryl residue (naphthyl, 4-methoxynaphthyl, pyrenyl or anthryl) that is linked via an additional stereogenic axis. The triaryl cores were synthesized by Suzuki couplings and then transformed into boronic acid esters by employing an Ir(I)-catalyzed reaction. The chromophores show dual emission behavior, where the long-wavelength emission band can reach maxima close to 600 nm in polar solvents. The fluorescence quantum yields of the dyes are generally in the range of 0.2–0.4, reaching in some cases values as high as 0.5–0.6. Laser-flash photolysis provided evidence for the existence of excited triplet states. The dyes form fluoroboronate complexes with fluoride anions, leading to the observation of the quenching of the long-wavelength emission band and ratiometric response by the build-up of a hypsochromically shifted emission signal.

scholarly journals Different Role of Bisulfite/Sulfite in UVC-S(IV)-O2 System for Arsenite Oxidation in Water

Molecules ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (12) ◽  
pp. 2307 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tao Luo ◽  
Zhenhua Wang ◽  
Yi Wang ◽  
Zizheng Liu ◽  
Ivan P. Pozdnyakov
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Rate Constant ◽  
Treatment Process ◽  
Flash Photolysis ◽  
Laser Flash Photolysis ◽  
Laser Flash ◽  
Quantum Yields ◽  
Alkaline Ph ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Process

It is of interest to use UV-sulfite based processes to degrade pollutants in wastewater treatment process. In this work, arsenic (As(III)) has been selected as a target pollutant to verify the efficacy of such a hypothesized process. The results showed that As(III) was quickly oxidized by a UV-sulfite system at neutral or alkaline pH and especially at pH 9.5, which can be mainly attributed to the generated oxysulfur radicals. In laser flash photolysis (LFP) experiments (λex = 266 nm), the signals of SO3•− and eaq− generated by photolysis of sulfite at 266 nm were discerned. Quantum yields for photoionization of HSO3− (0.01) and SO32− (0.06) were also measured. It has been established that eaq− does not react with SO32−, but reacts with HSO3− with a rate constant 8 × 107 M−1s−1.

Mechanism of acid-catalyzed photoaddition of methanol to 3-alkyl2-cyclohexenones

1995 ◽  
Vol 73 (11) ◽  
pp. 2004-2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
David I. Schuster ◽  
Jie-Min Yang ◽  
Jan Woning ◽  
Timothy A. Rhodes ◽  
Anton W. Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Acetic Acid ◽  
Triplet State ◽  
Rate Constant ◽  
Flash Photolysis ◽  
Laser Flash Photolysis ◽  
Laser Flash ◽  
Product Formation ◽  
Triplet States ◽  
Quenching Rate ◽  
Acid Catalyzed

Contrary to a previous report, it is concluded that formation of methanol adducts to 3-methyl-2-cyclohexenones and of deconjugated enones on irradiation of the enones in acidified solutions proceeds via protonation of the intermediate enone π,π* triplet excited state and not by protonation of a relatively long-lived ground state trans-cyclohexenone. A rate constant for protonation of the triplet state of 3-methyl-2-cyclohexenone by sulfuric acid of 1.7 × 109 M−1 s−1 was determined by laser flash photolysis in ethyl acetate. Based on quantum efficiencies of product formation, a rate constant of ca. 108 M−1 s−1 was estimated for protonation of the enone triplet by acetic acid, which is too small to cause measurable reduction in the triplet state lifetime in the mM concentration range used in the preparative studies. The intermediate carbocation can be trapped by methanol, or revert to starting enone or the exocyclic deconjugated enone by loss of a proton. Since products revert to starting materials in an acid-catalyzed process, there is an acid concentration at which the yields of products are optimal. This concentration is ca. 6 mM for acetic acid, but is only 0.1 mM for p-toluenesulfonic or sulfuric acids. Product formation could be quenched using 1-methylnaphthalene and cyclopentene as triplet quenchers; in the latter case, formation of [2 + 2] photoadducts was observed to compete with formation of methanol adducts. Quenching rate constants were determined by laser flash studies. Keywords: laser flash photolysis, kinetic absorption spectroscopy (KAS), photoacoustic calorimetry (PAC), protonation of triplet states, trans-cyclohexenones.

Mechanistic studies of aromatic ketone-sensitized photoreduction of bis(acetylacetonato)copper(II)

1983 ◽  
Vol 61 (5) ◽  
pp. 801-808 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuan L. Chow ◽  
Gonzalo E. Buono-Core ◽  
Bronislaw Marciniak ◽  
Carol Beddard
Keyword(s):  
Rate Constant ◽  
Rate Constants ◽  
Flash Photolysis ◽  
Decay Rates ◽  
Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons ◽  
Aromatic Ketone ◽  
Quantum Yields ◽  
Triplet States ◽  
Quenching Rate ◽  
Triplet Energy

Bis(acetylacetonato)copper(II), Cu(acac)2, quenches triplet excited states of ketones and polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons efficiently, but only aromatic ketones with high triplet energy successfully sensitize photoreduction of Cu(acac)2 in alcohols under nitrogen to give derivatives of aeetylacetonatocopper(I), Cu(acac). For the triplet state benzophenone-sensitized photoreduction of Cu(acac)2, the quantum yields of photoreduction (ΦC) and those of benzophenone disappearance (ΦB) were determined in methanol with various concentrations of Cu(acac)2. The values of the quenching rate constant, kq, determined from these two types of monitors on the basis of the proposed mechanism were in good agreement (6.89 ~ 7.35 × 109 M−1 s−1). This value was higher, by a factor of about two, than that obtained from the monitor of the benzophenone triplet decay rates generated by flash photolysis in the presence of Cu(acac)2. The quenching rate constants of various aromatic ketone and hydrocarbon triplet states by Cu(acac)2 were determined by flash photolysis to be in the order of the diffusion rate constant and the quantum yields of these photoreductions were found to be far from unity. Paramagnetic quenching, with contributions of electron exchange and charge transfer, was proposed as a possible quenching mechanism. For a series of aromatic ketone sensitizers with higher triplet energy, this mechanism was used to rationalize the observed high quenching rate constants in contrast to the low quantum yields of photoreduction.

Photochemical reaction kinetics and mechanism of bisphenol A with K2S2O8 in aqueous solution: a laser flash photolysis study

2021 ◽  
Vol 99 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-50
Author(s):  
Yongchao Zhu ◽  
Mengyu Zhu ◽  
Jingjing Xie ◽  
Yadong Hu ◽  
Ying Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bisphenol A ◽  
Rate Constant ◽  
Photochemical Reaction ◽  
Flash Photolysis ◽  
Laser Flash Photolysis ◽  
Phenoxyl Radical ◽  
Laser Flash ◽  
Kinetics And Mechanism ◽  
Main Reaction ◽  
Specific Rate

The photochemical reaction kinetics and mechanism of bisphenol A (BPA) with potassium persulfate (K2S2O8) were investigated by using 266 nm laser flash photolysis and gas chromatography mass spectrum (GC-MS) technique. Sulfate radical (SO4•−), generated upon K2S2O8 photolysis, reacted with BPA with the overall rate constant of (1.61 ± 0.15) × 109 L mol−1 s−1, and two main reaction mechanisms were involved. One was addition channel to generate BPA–SO4•− adduct with a specific second-order rate constant of (1.09 ± 0.15) × 109 L mol−1 s−1. Molecular oxygen was involved in the decay of the BPA–SO4•− adduct with a rate constant of (1.28 ± 0.14) × 108 L mol−1 s−1. Another channel was the formation of BPA’s phenoxyl radical, likely derived from a deprotonation of the cation radical (BPA•+) generated from single electron transfer reactions. The specific rate constant of BPA’s phenoxyl radical formation was determined to be (6.16 ± 0.08) × 108 L mol−1 s−1. The overall rate constant was in line with the sum of aforementioned two specific rate constants for two main reaction channels. By comparing these rate constants, it was indicated that SO4•− addition channel accounted for ∼65% (1.09/1.61) to the overall reaction, and phenoxyl radical formation accounted for only ∼35% (0.62/1.61). The transformation products of BPA were identified by using GC-MS including 4-isopropylphenol, 4-isopropenylphenol, and 2,4-di-tert-butylphenol, and the reaction mechanism was proposed. These results may provide microscopic kinetics and mechanism information on BPA degradation using SO4•−-based advanced oxidation processes.

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