Kinetic implications of remote participation during photooxidation at sulfur
摘要:
The kinetic behavior of 17 hydroxy-substituted sulfides in their reactions with singlet oxygen have been investigated by using a time-resolved kinetic method and by competition. A dramatic 11.6-fold rate increase in the chemical rate was observed when the hydroxy groups were separated from the sulfide reaction center by three carbon atoms, indicative of remote hydroxy participation and the presence of a sulfurane on the reaction surface.
Effect of temperature on sulfide photooxidations. Evidence for a reversibly formed exciplex?
摘要:
A kinetic study of the reactions of single oxygen with pentamethylenesulfide, 1,4-dithiane, and 3-hydroxy-3,4-dimethylpentyl p-methylphenyl sulfide has been conducted as a function of temperature. The total rates of singlet oxygen removal (k(T)) and the chemical rates of sulfide disappearance (k(r)) have been measured and the physical quenching rates determined from the relationship k(T) = k(r) + k(q). The activation barriers for the photooxidations are very different from those observed in photooxidations of other substrates and are explained by tighter binding in sulfide/oxygen exciplexes and bimolecular conversions of the exciplexes to products.