The Highly Reactive Benzhydryl Cation Isolated and Stabilized in Water Ice
摘要:
Diphenylcarbene (DPC) shows a triplet ground-state lying approximately 3 kcal/mol below the lowest singlet state. Under the conditions of matrix isolation at 25 K, DPC reacts with single water molecules embedded in solid argon and switches its ground state from triplet to singlet by forming a strong hydrogen bond. The complex between DPC and water is only metastable, and even at 3 K the carbene center slowly inserts into the OH bond of water to form benzhydryl alcohol via quantum chemical tunneling. Surprisingly, if DPC is generated in amorphous water ice at 3 K, it is protonated instantaneously to give the benzhydryl cation. Under these conditions, the benzhydryl cation is stable, and warming to temperatures above 50 K is required to produce benzhydryl alcohol. Thus, for the first time, a highly electrophilic and extremely reactive secondary carbenium ion can be isolated in a neutral, nucleophilic environment avoiding superacidic conditions.
Carbocation formation via carbene protonation studied by the technique of stopped-flow laser-flash photolysis
作者:Simon T. Belt、Cornelia Bohne、G. Charette、S. E. Sugamori、J. C. Scaiano
DOI:10.1021/ja00059a014
日期:1993.3
Photolysis of diaryl diazo compounds in the presence of hydroxylic protonating substrates in acetonitrile leads to the formation of the corresponding carbocations. Quantum yields for these processes have been determined for the first time; for example, photolysis of diphenyldiazomethane in 1:1 acetonitrile/trifluoroethanol produces Ph 2 CH + with a quantum yield of 0.007. The products, formed either
Reaction of diphenylcarbene with amines and the question of triplet-singlet equilibration
作者:A. S. Nazran、David Griller
DOI:10.1021/ja00302a002
日期:1985.8
Photolyse de l'α-diazo diphenylmethane conduisant au diphenylcarbene. Reaction de celui-ci avec la butylamine et la t-butylamine. Donnees cinetiques, mecanisme
Photolyse de l'α-重氮二苯甲烷导管 au diphenylcarbene。反应 de celui-ci avec la 丁胺和叔丁胺。Donnees cinetiques, mecanisme
Activation of the B−F Bond by Diphenylcarbene: A Reversible 1,2-Fluorine Migration between Boron and Carbon
of BF3 in a two‐step reaction. The first step is the formation of a strongly bound Lewis acid–base complex between the singlet state of diphenylcarbene and BF3. This step involves an inversion of the spin state of the carbene from triplet to singlet. The second step requires visible‐light photochemical activation to induce a 1,2‐F migration from boron to the adjacent carbon atom under formation of the
Laser flash spectrometric investigations of biradicals and caged radical pairs
作者:Nicholas J. Turro
DOI:10.1016/0040-4020(82)80161-0
日期:1982.1
The use of laser flash spectroscopic tecniques allows the detection, identification dynamic analysis of biradicals and caged pairs in fluid solution at ambient temperatures. The conventional flash spectroscopic device has been advanced with the advent of the Excimer Laser, as an excitation source of the optical multichannel analyzer (OMA) as a detector system and of the transient digitizer (TD) as
Reaction of phenylchlorocarbene and diphenylcarbene with the carbon-chlorine bond: kinetics and mechanisms
作者:Michelle B. Jones、Vincent M. Maloney、Matthew S. Platz
DOI:10.1021/ja00032a034
日期:1992.3
The reactions of phenylchlorocarbene (PCC) and diphenylcarbene (DPC) with carbon-chlorine bonds were investigated by laser flash photolysis techniques, product studies, and electrochemical methods. The data with both carbenes are consistent with a polar chlorine atom transfer to form radical pairs. The PCC reaction can be thought of as an inner sphere electron transfer from the carbene to the carbon-halogen