1971–1976 – Profiting from a New Beginning in Geneva
Author(s) -
Kurt Schaffner
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
chimia international journal for chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.387
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 2673-2424
pISSN - 0009-4293
DOI - 10.2533/chimia.2009.846
Subject(s) - intramolecular force , chemistry , excited state , photochemistry , naphthalene , acceptor , excimer , methane , stereochemistry , organic chemistry , fluorescence , atomic physics , physics , quantum mechanics , condensed matter physics
A few projects of organic photochemistry, which have been investigated in Geneva in 1971–76, are reviewed summarily. They include excited state-selective processes from the n,?* and ?,?* triplets and selectively occurring ? ? ?* induced reactions of ?,?-unsaturated cyclic ketones, oxadi-?-methane rearrangements and 1,3-acetyl shifts of ?,?-unsaturated methyl ketones, and di-?-methane rearrangements of benzoylnaphthobarrelene compounds. Furthermore, intramolecular triplet energy transfer dependence on rigid donor–acceptor syn-anti topologies between indanone and naphthalene moieties most likely reflects competition between radiationless energy dissipation by through-space aromatic ? interaction (amounting to intramolecular exciplex action) and through-?-bond exchange transfer. Finally, electronically integrating actinometry and time-resolved IR spectroscopy of excited states and reaction intermediates are mentioned.
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