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Phenylethanol derivatives as triplet sensitizers for 1‐azidoadamantane
Author(s) -
Upul Ranaweera Ranaweera R. A.,
Rajam Sridhar,
Gudmundsdottir Anna D.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of physical organic chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.325
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1099-1395
pISSN - 0894-3230
DOI - 10.1002/poc.1922
Subject(s) - chemistry , flash photolysis , excited state , phosphorescence , photochemistry , reaction rate constant , nitrene , triplet state , density functional theory , acetonitrile , alkyl , computational chemistry , molecule , kinetics , organic chemistry , atomic physics , fluorescence , catalysis , physics , quantum mechanics
Laser flash photolysis, phosphorescence and density functional calculations were used to characterize the triplet excited states of phenylethanol derivatives 1, 2, 3 and 4. In acetonitrile, the triplet excited states of these alcohols were formed with rate constants on the order of ~10 7 s –1 and decayed with rate constants between 10 5 and 10 6 s –1 . The energies of these triplet excited states were between 80 and 83 kcal/mol. Furthermore, 3 can be used as a triplet sensitizer for alkyl azides to form triplet nitrene intermediates. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.